Audience Quote by George Szell

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

— Andre Kostelanetz

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have…

— Joshua Bell

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

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

— Kurt Masur

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

— Anthony Hopkins

Composers are not all good conductors.

— Anton Seidl

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that…

— James Levine

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

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

— Zubin Mehta

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

Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll show you a lousy conductor.

— Goddard Lieberson

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

— Bernard Arnault