Accepted Quote by Michael Tilson Thomas

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

— Kurt Masur

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

— Keith Emerson

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

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to…

— Harry Mathews

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

What appeals to me about an American music directorship is the involvement of the conductor with the orchestra and the community. I think that's…

— Jeffrey Tate

Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians.

— Simon Rattle

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

— Andris Nelsons

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

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

— Edwin Land

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

— Brian May

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

— Anton Seidl