Conducting Quotes

130 quotes by 122 authors

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our… — Julian Assange
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music. — Daniel Barenboim
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. — Daniel Barenboim
This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations… — John Boehner
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than… — Derek Bok
I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job… — Nadia Boulanger
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? — Julie Burchill
Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to… — Carter Burwell
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. — Dick Cheney
I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions,… — George Washington
Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an… — William Feindel
Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about… — Elisabeth Murdoch
And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at… — James Levine
Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what… — M. Anthony Burns
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living… — Bobby McFerrin
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the… — Leon Trotsky
My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to… — John Cassavetes
The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures… — Fritz Reiner
In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it. — George S. Patton

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