Ability Quote by Richard Wagner Download Open image “The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.” — Richard Wagner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ability Conductor Duty Tempo Whole
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 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
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
For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the… — Edward Gardner 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
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
So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you… — Ruggiero Ricci Copy Share Image
In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts -… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
...you know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never... — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image