Conductor Quotes

145 quotes by 115 authors

Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed… — Phillip C. Schlechty
The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra… — Gustavo Dudamel
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much. — Anthony Hopkins
A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the… — Lara St. John
I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow… — Donna Leon
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture… — James Levine
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill. — Franz Liszt
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are… — Franz Liszt
I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer. — Lisa Loeb
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. — Neville Marriner
And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I… — Kurt Masur
And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more. — Kurt Masur
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming. — Idina Menzel
The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes… — Henry Mintzberg
I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when… — Josh Radnor
I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist. — Little Richard
It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk,… — Sharon Salzberg
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how… — John Philip Sousa
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in… — David Ogden Stiers

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