Conductor Quote by John Barbirolli Download Open image “Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.” — John Barbirolli ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conductor Long
Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
“All great conductors are different. The mediocre ones are more or less the same.” — John Mauceri Copy Share Image
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform. — John Barbirolli Copy Share Image
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
I knew that I'd lived in New York too long when, a few years ago, I was on a subway going downtown, and it… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
