I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from ...
Train Conductor: Hey, Mister, you just can't pull the emergency cord and jump off! Tell me, why did you stop that train? If you wanna get off, you're... [looks at Mortimer's gun] Train Conductor: Well, the railroad company would might be pleased to m...
The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.
Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
I was different from most young conductors today.
I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.
Conductor: Aren't you Ramón Sampedro? It's an honour.
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
A conductor should guide rather than command.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.
I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
