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 Conductor Guide Guide Guide Command Guides Should Song
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