#conductor

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

— Leonard Bernstein

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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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The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience. ↗

— Andre Kostelanetz

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Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

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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

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It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

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Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out. ↗

— James Levine

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I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot. ↗

— James Levine

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I was different from most young conductors today. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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