Conductor Quotes

145 Conductor quotes by 115 unique authors

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
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift. — Anton Seidl
The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had… — Anton Seidl
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly… — Anton Seidl
I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing… — Osamu Dazai
A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good… — Leonard Slatkin
The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should… — Leonard Slatkin
The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of… — Leonard Slatkin
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then… — Peter Brook
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with… — Jeffrey Tate
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good. — Bernard Arnault
I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera. — Nina Arianda
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all… — Oliver Heaviside
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many… — Maureen Forrester
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured… — Marvin Hamlisch
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.… — Sara Zarr

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