Conductor Quotes
145 quotes by 120 authors
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Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
— Jason Bateman
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There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.
— Joshua Bell
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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
— Leonard Bernstein
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Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out…
— Steven Adler
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For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something with your body.…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes…
— Andrea Bocelli
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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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It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been…
— Tori Amos
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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them…
— Carl Sandburg
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The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra,…
— Victor Borge
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The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity.
— Judith Hooper
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The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
— Nicholas Meyer
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The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when…
— Christian Friedrich Schonbein
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The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance…
— Richard Owen
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It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score as a conductor…
— Robert Paul Wolff
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Playing music well is difficult, yet the world has an abundance of fine performers. Explaining a little about music is easier, yet few do it…
— Justin Davidson
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I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.
— James Levine
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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
— George Szell
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The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
— Ansel Adams
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A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or…
— Sol LeWitt
Who Wrote These Conductor Quotes
120 authors contributed a total of 145 Conductor Quotes, led by these top contributors: