Command Quote by Riccardo Muti Download Open image “A conductor should guide rather than command.” — Riccardo Muti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Command Conductor Guides Should
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
A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that, things have… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We… — Franz Liszt 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 can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much. — Anthony Hopkins 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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring… — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work? — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
