Conductor Quote by Mstislav Rostropovich Download Open image “I played with the best conductors of the world.” — Mstislav Rostropovich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Best Conductors Conductor Conductors Conductors World Played Played Best World
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems. — Zubin Mehta 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
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities… — Jeff Healey 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 was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and the real… — Esa-Pekka Salonen 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
Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
And there's a metal train that's a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her, How long til it… — Bo Burnham 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
