Bow tie Quote by Frank Zappa

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

— Andris Nelsons

Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

— Joshua Bell

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

— Anton Seidl

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

— James Newton Howard

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

— Jeffrey Tate

Conducting is way over my head.

— Mike Patton

Through conducting, you express through your arms, through your face and even the body, what you want to tell, so the musicians of the…

— Andris Nelsons

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, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more…

— Carter Burwell

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

— Gustav Mahler

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

— Herbert von Karajan