Art Quote by Nadia Boulanger

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

A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an audience, and…

— Sue Perkins

The conductor must make it possible to eliminate himself in the music. If the orchestra feels him doing that, then everything will go well.

— Giuseppe Sinopoli

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

— Anthony Hopkins

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

Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and…

— Leonard Bernstein

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the…

— Victor Borge

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned,…

— Peter Brook

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and…

— John Philip Sousa

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

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have…

— Joshua Bell

“The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the…

— Sol Stein