Conductor Quotes

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

Thank you, Wes... You've been a great inspiration. You are like a conductor. You are like a composer... You inspire us, all of us... If it wasn't for you...I couldn't have done it this way.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.

I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.

I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

I played with the best conductors of the world.

The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.

For me, a paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.

There was that sound again--snap, then a footfall. She tried to whirl around as a dark form--Dear God--sprang with a splash from the darkness--grabbed her from behind, shoved her under the water.

He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes.