Conductor Quotes

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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

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.

A conductor should guide rather than command.

Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

There's a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he's a good conductor?

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

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

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

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.

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

You know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.

A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it.

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

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

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

[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?

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

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

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

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.

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.

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

Composers are not all good conductors.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

You are the conductor of your own success train.

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

One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people to agree on where "now" actually is.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.

The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity.