Conducting Quote by Esa-Pekka Salonen Download Open image “Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.” — Esa-Pekka Salonen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conducting Flukes Happened
Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have so much regard for the art of conducting. It's easy to look not so good up there. — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books. — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers,… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
At the time when I was conducting my research there was no known method for taking the guinea pig's temperature. I demonstrated a technique… — Charles Jules Henry Nicole Copy Share Image
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. — Barbara Olson Copy Share Image
The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms - in this… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
That Iran is willing to threaten Israel is wrong[. . . .] We pose no threat and if we are conducting nuclear research and… — Ali Larijani Copy Share Image
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen,… — George Combe Copy Share Image
The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
