Top Conducting Quotes
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.
Michael Tilson Thomas
I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.
Bobby McFerrin
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.
Peter Garrett
The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.
Roger Wicker
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
Anton Seidl
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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.
Michael Tilson Thomas 
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I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.
Bobby McFerrin
60% of people like this quote
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.
Peter Garrett
57% of people like this quote
The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.
Roger Wicker
56% of people like this quote
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
Anton Seidl
56% of people like this quote
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.
Carter Burwell
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My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
Christa McAuliffe
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