Conductors Quote by Michael Tilson Thomas Download Open image “Conductors are performers.” — Michael Tilson Thomas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conductors Performers
The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the services of first-class conductors. They are sick and tired of dealing with singers, as I am. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way. If the… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to… — Isaac Stern 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
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political.… — Neeme Jarvi Copy Share Image
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this… — Michael Tilson Thomas 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
You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music]. — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human. — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them. — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter. You can make transistors out… — Paul McEuen Copy Share Image
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway. — Alan J. Pakula Copy Share Image
They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors… — Rue McClanahan Copy Share Image
I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older.… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky has been… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes… — Steven Adler 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
