Conductor Quote by Kurt Masur Download Open image “Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.” — Kurt Masur ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conductor Confidence Enough Success Young
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
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
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
“understand that to be truly successful I need to be like a conductor of people, many of whom (if not all) can play their instruments better than I can—and that if I was a really great conductor, I would also be able to find a better conductor than me and hire him or her. My ultimate goal is to create… — Ray Dalio Copy Share
A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant… — Sergei Rachmaninoff 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
A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how… — Isaac Stern Copy Share Image
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor,… — Michael Tilson Thomas 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
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
