Conducting Quotes

Conducting Quote of the day

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality.

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.

I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.

Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

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.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the first time and also playing the guitar and the conducting I had to do.

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.

It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.