Accepted Quote by Michael Tilson Thomas

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice…

— Lara St. John

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more…

— Carter Burwell

The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting…

— Henry Mintzberg

One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was…

— Bobby McFerrin

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

— Itzhak Perlman

The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms - in this…

— Margaret Thatcher

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

— Barbara Olson

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

— Jay McInerney

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger…

— Roland Joffe