Conducting Quotes

130 Conducting quotes by 121 unique authors

The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with… — Paul Feyerabend
In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for… — David Amram
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna… — Harry Mathews
I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen… — Itzhak Perlman
Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what the Iraqis are… — George W. Bush
The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity. — Dr. John
I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo. — Eugene Ormandy
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems… — Gore Vidal
An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and… — Sigmund Freud
I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be… — Bob Parsons
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 ties… — Frank Zappa
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books. — Anton Seidl
I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started… — Bobby McFerrin
Conducting is a strange thing to teach. — Joshua Bell
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing. — Colin Davis
For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the… — Gustavo Dudamel
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research… — Peter Garrett
We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals,… — Ali Khamenei
That Iran is willing to threaten Israel is wrong[. . . .] We pose no threat and if we are conducting nuclear research and development… — Ali Larijani
Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them… — Paul Keating
The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow. — B. H. Liddell Hart
I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I… — Thomas J. Paprocki
Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one… — Luther Standing Bear
Modern technology has conveniently provided a measuring stick by which you can determine whether or not you are conducting your business in an acceptable, ethical… — Wayne D. Dosick

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