Achieve Quote by Fritz Reiner

I really want to get better at conducting.

— Ludwig Goransson

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

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.

— Igor Markevitch

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

— Anonymous

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

— Andris Nelsons

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

— James Levine

I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms that I…

— Joe Lovano

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

— James Newton Howard

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

There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is…

— Laurence Equilbey

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the…

— Edward Gardner

One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds,…

— Frederic Chopin