Behinds Quote by Edward Gardner

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to…

— Isaac Stern

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation…

— Eberhard Weber

The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way. If the…

— Laurence Equilbey

A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that, things have…

— Joshua Bell

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to…

— Kurt Masur

A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how…

— Isaac Stern

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz,…

— Goran Ivanisevic

The conductor must make it possible to eliminate himself in the music. If the orchestra feels him doing that, then everything will go well.

— Giuseppe Sinopoli

Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra…

— Andrea Bocelli

For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.

— Hilary Hahn

A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant…

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sometimes the simplest forms of music are the hardest to play. Especially for musicians that are accomplished.

— J. J. Cale