Conductors Quotes
36 quotes by 34 authors
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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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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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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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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players..
— Blaine Lee Pardoe
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Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the Freedom and Justice…
— Mohammed Morsi
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You know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.
— John Barbirolli
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires…
— Eberhard Weber
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Composers are not all good conductors.
— Anton Seidl
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This year - a factory of semiconductors. Next year - a factory of whole conductors!
— Todor Zhivkov
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I was different from most young conductors today.
— Kurt Masur
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Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
— Kurt Masur
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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
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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
— Ethel Barrymore
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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
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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
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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
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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
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