Great Conductors Quotes

#1. Good conductors know when to push and when to lay back. I've known so many great conductors that I'm still doing what I can to learn the craft of this role.

Joshua Bell

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

Ethel Barrymore

#3. 'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.

Rainn Wilson

#4. There is a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us and it ill behoves any of us to criticize the rest of us.

Philippa Carr

#5. Never let your mind talk you out of what your heart wants.

Giuseppe Bianco

#6. I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?

Paul Rudnick

#7. The great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them. But there are conductors that actually inhibit the players from playing with each other properly.

Joshua Bell

#8. I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

Amy Tan

#9. Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

Sam Sheppard

#10. Unhappy is a nice word.

Jose Mourinho

#11. There are some times when sports rises to the level of news and when sports broadcasters acquit themselves as well as the best news broadcasters do, they aren't there to dramatize. They're there as journalists.

Bob Costas

#12. I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.

Susan Fletcher

#13. Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

Ernest Holmes

#14. Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

Maureen Forrester

#15. The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Blaine Lee

#16. The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

Nathaniel Hawthorne