Becoming Quote by Rudolf Bing

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

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

— Zubin Mehta

Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians.

— Simon Rattle

Conductors are performers.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

— Chico Hamilton

Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they…

— Zubin Mehta

Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.

— Simon Rattle

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

Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have…

— Marvin Hamlisch

The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights…

— Leonard Slatkin

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