Music Quote by Stephen Hough

There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do…

— Anna Netrebko

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

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

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

A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an audience, and…

— Sue Perkins

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

— Leonard Bernstein

Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole…

— David Finckel

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

Normally classical music is set up so you have professionals on a stage and a bunch of audience - it's us versus them. You…

— David Lang

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

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

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