Conductor Quote by Kurt Masur Download Open image “I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.” — Kurt Masur ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conductor Enough Orchestra Play Together
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 Copy Share Image
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good. — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful. — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
The conductor of an orchestra doesnt make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful. — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz,… — Goran Ivanisevic Copy Share Image
I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
And there's a metal train that's a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her, How long til it… — Bo Burnham 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