Conductor Quote by Kurt Masur Download Open image “I was different from most young conductors today.” — Kurt Masur ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conductor Different Today Young
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I felt more like a student working with a mentor when I worked with the conductor, but now it feels… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. — Neville Marriner 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
Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
My worst and best qualities are rashness: the good part of it is due to youth, which is, of course, why I'm not a… — Simon Rattle 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
Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians. — Simon Rattle 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
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor. — 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
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
