Go Quote by Simon Rattle

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

— Joshua Bell

Conducting is way over my head.

— Mike Patton

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that…

— James Levine

The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled…

— Bob Brozman

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

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

— Anonymous

“The first problem I had with conducting was coming out on stage and turning my back on the audience. It was an utterly foreign…

— Leon Fleisher

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

— Jack Brymer

The magnetic needle always points to the North, and hence it is that the vessel does not lose its direction. So long as the…

— Ritu Ghatourey

From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

— Barbara Ascher

In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.

— Deepak Chopra

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

— Anonymous