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Composers are not all good conductors.
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
A conductor should guide rather than command.
I played with the best conductors of the world.
You are the conductor of your own success train.
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.
Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!
You know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.
Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.
When you are the host, you have to take the party into your hands like a conductor.
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices.
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.
My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.
There is one live track on the album, 'Einsamaller,' and that had a conductor - Eyvind Kang.
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.
I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
When I was young I wanted to be a bus driver, because my grandad was a conductor on the Routemasters.
You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.
I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.
All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
It's a dream to be its conductor. Sometimes I think, 'My God, I can't believe it.' It's a dream which came true.
As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.
I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.
My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.
There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.
The most important thing as a conductor is that you have to want it. People will give you a million reasons why you shouldn't.
My worst and best qualities are rashness: the good part of it is due to youth, which is, of course, why I'm not a great conductor.
Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.
I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
When I was younger, I felt more like a student working with a mentor when I worked with the conductor, but now it feels more like equals.
The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
That was the ultimate high, playing live. You feel like the Pied Piper, or a conductor, knowing how to take an audience up or bring them down.