Quotes of: Conductor Keyword

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.

Steven Adler

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Anthony Hopkins

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

Colin R. Davis

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

Richard Armitage

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

Kurt Masur

You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.

Lee J. Colan

Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.

Andrea Bocelli

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

Lisa Loeb

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

Zubin Mehta

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

David Ogden Stiers

Narrator: [introducing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor] What you will see are the different things that might pass through your mind if you sat in a concert hall listening to this music. At first, you are more or less conscious of the orchestra. ...

Fantasia

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

Nicholas Meyer

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

Kurt Masur

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

Franz Liszt

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

Eberhard Weber

The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.

Charles Munch

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

Neville Marriner

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

Michael Tilson Thomas

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

Franz Liszt

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

Idina Menzel

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

Joshua Bell