#conductor

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

— Riccardo Muti

#continent #island #power #rather #solitude

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

#become #conductor #every #every nation #following

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. ↗

— Tori Amos

#calling #conductor #creature #dragon #entity

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

#ask #atlanta #back #car #conductor

Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much. ↗

— John Barbirolli

#conductors #do you know #know #live #long

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

— Joshua Bell

#frustrating #gestures #hands #huge #more

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

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Conductors are performers. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#performers

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#between #building #collaboration #conductor #especially

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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