Book Quote by Anton Seidl

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow…

— Frank Zappa

Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.

— Andris Nelsons

Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I have so much regard for the art of conducting. It's easy to look not so good up there.

— James Newton Howard

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

— Joshua Bell

Conducting is way over my head.

— Mike Patton

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

— Jeffrey Tate

Conducting is a natural way to participate in one's own music. Almost every 19th-century composer Mendelssohn, Mahler was conducting or playing his own music.…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more…

— Carter Burwell

A conductor should guide rather than command.

— Riccardo Muti

“The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the…

— Sol Stein