59 Conductor Quotes for You to Enjoy

I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off. Jeffrey Tate

Me Baton Totally Touch Puts Feel Another Off Conductor Handle Center Even Gravity

I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence. Jeffrey Tate

There is one live track on the album, 'Einsamaller,' and that had a conductor - Eyvind Kang. Jenny Scheinman

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Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds? John Philip Sousa

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture. Joshua Bell

Good Architecture Vision Ninety Ninety Percent Percent Structure Lead Know Does Itself Conductor Conductors Orchestra Rehearsal

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them. Joshua Bell

Great Together Will Secret Great Secret Concept Course Without Conductor Orchestra Mean Them Unify Help Play Actually

Being a director or a conductor is a balance of many things. And to do it right is a very difficult tightrope to walk. I've come to the conclusion that there's really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor. Joshua Bell

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In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding. Kurt Masur

Thought Young Heroic Symphony Must Piece Misunderstanding Heard Beethoven South South America Conductor America Which Deep

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor. Kurt Masur

Together Enough Always Conductor Orchestra Play Bring Imagined

A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before. Leonard Slatkin

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The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat. Leonard Slatkin

Leadership Sometimes Leader Community Arbiter Wrong Taking Most Looked Go His Cultural Conductor Heat Artistic Anything Persons Should Her

When you are the host, you have to take the party into your hands like a conductor. Lidia Bastianich

You Party Take Host Like Conductor Hands Your

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time. Michael Tilson Thomas

Time First Guest Would Would-Be Propose Pieces Accepted Doing Years Years Ago Conducting Conductor American From Time To Time Europe

There's nothing worse than working with an orchestra who looks down on working with a conductor who doesn't want to conduct for you. You need to be with an orchestra that can follow you and respect you. Nell Carter

You Respect Nothing Down Worse Follow Looks Conduct Conductor Than Orchestra Want Working Who Need

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera. Nina Arianda

Year Had Opera Conductor Wanted

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude. Riccardo Muti

Solitude Power Rather Island Continent Conductor Stand

A conductor should guide rather than command. Riccardo Muti

Guide Rather Command Conductor Than Should

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes. Richard C. Armitage

Strokes He Arm Like Conductor Quite Straight Used Painted Bold

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms. Ruggiero Ricci

Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty years for a conductor to 'ripen/mature,' we'll only see them in 'top conductors statistics' in some decades. Ruth Reinhardt

Young Think Thirty Top Statistics See Some Only Takes Female Firstly Least Years Conductor Conductors Decades Them Many Now

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice. Sharon Salzberg

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