Conductor Quotes

145 quotes by 115 authors

It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the… — Oswald Chambers
If a train doesnâ€™t stop at your station, itâ€™s simply because itâ€™s not your train. Donâ€™t try to flag down the conductor and convince them… — Marianne Williamson
Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following… — Artur Rodzinski
The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead… — Elvin Jones
If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our… — Peter Kreeft
When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted… — Michael Tilson Thomas
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor. — Kurt Masur
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating… — Itzhak Perlman
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo. — Richard Wagner
A conductor should guide rather than command. — Riccardo Muti
I was different from most young conductors today. — Kurt Masur
You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be… — Kurt Masur
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success. — Kurt Masur
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him… — Desmond Tutu
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman… — Ray Stannard Baker
A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and… — Robert Benchley
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. — Ethel Barrymore
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor. — Igor Stravinsky
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't… — Kurt Masur
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in… — Ian Rankin

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