Top Conductor Quotes
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
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
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.
Gunther Schuller
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
Ray Stannard Baker
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
Neville Marriner
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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 
67% of people like this quote
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
65% of people like this quote
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.
Gunther Schuller
60% of people like this quote
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
Ray Stannard Baker
59% of people like this quote
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
Neville Marriner
57% of people like this quote
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.
Artur Rodzinski
56% of people like this quote
I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.
Leon Theremin
56% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?
John Philip Sousa
55% of people like this quote
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
Anton Seidl
54% of people like this quote
Popular Conductor Authors
James LevineIgor StravinskyFranz LisztJohn Philip SousaItzhak PerlmanKurt MasurMichael Tilson ThomasNeville MarrinerEberhard WeberHarriet TubmanGunther Schuller
Ray Stannard BakerAnton SeidlRuggiero RicciRiccardo MutiColin R. DavisNicholas MeyerAndre KostelanetzCharles MunchArtur RodzinskiLeon ThereminGoddard Lieberson
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