Able Quote by Carter Burwell

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

— Andris Nelsons

Conducting is way over my head.

— Mike Patton

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

— James Newton Howard

The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all…

— Fritz Reiner

For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.

— Hilary Hahn

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the…

— Edward Gardner

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

— Gustav Mahler

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

— Joshua Bell

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

Through conducting, you express through your arms, through your face and even the body, what you want to tell, so the musicians of the…

— Andris Nelsons

A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant…

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

I really want to get better at conducting.

— Ludwig Goransson