Conductor Quotes

145 Conductor quotes by 115 unique authors

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. — Igor Stravinsky
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a… — Michael Tilson Thomas
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train… — Harriet Tubman
I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you… — Eberhard Weber
[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving… — Laura Esquivel
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the… — Henry Miller
I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see… — Gerard Way
The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful… — George Carlin
At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all at once, only… — Janet Fitch
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a… — Frank McCourt
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer! — Daniel Handler
Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull… — Samuel Beckett
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to… — Beryl Markham
I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? — Arthur Conan Doyle
Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts… — Arthur Conan Doyle
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light. — Arthur Conan Doyle
We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune. — William Ralph Inge
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by… — Thomas B. Macaulay
There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do the… — Anna Netrebko
I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen - even if I… — Anna Netrebko
As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor. — Erin O'Connor
I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or… — Randeep Hooda
Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives… — Christian Dior

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