Conducting Quotes
130 quotes by 122 authors
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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
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
— Daniel Barenboim
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
— Daniel Barenboim
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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
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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
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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
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When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
— Julie Burchill
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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
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The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.
— Dick Cheney
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Conducting Quotes
122 authors contributed a total of 130 Conducting Quotes, led by these top contributors: