Concepts Quote by Esa-Pekka Salonen

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow…

— Frank Zappa

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

— Jeffrey Tate

Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.

— Andris Nelsons

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

— Daniel Barenboim

Conducting is a natural way to participate in one's own music. Almost every 19th-century composer Mendelssohn, Mahler was conducting or playing his own music.…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

— Anton Seidl

Conducting is way over my head.

— Mike Patton

I really want to get better at conducting.

— Ludwig Goransson

I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I…

— Jeffrey Tate

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare…

— David Amram

I have so much regard for the art of conducting. It's easy to look not so good up there.

— James Newton Howard