Quotes About Orchestra Conductors

#1. Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

Alan J. Pakula

#2. You even used to make up funny stories about those poor little lost creatures of yours. Remember Bob, the squirrel banker who forgot to pay his electric bill so he froze to death?

Kimberly Derting

#3. Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

Joshua Bell

#4. Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

James M. Barrie

#5. You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional.

Mark Udall

#6. Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself.

Edward Hirsch

#7. What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.

Pat Metheny

#8. And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

Michael Haneke

#9. I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.

Sylvia Plath

#10. On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

Eberhard Weber

#11. The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

Mary McCarthy

#12. So many times, I've seen conductors that, every time they have a thought, they stop the orchestra and say it, and I can see the orchestra rolling their eyes and saying, 'Oh, God, he stopped again.' So there's a technique to rehearsing.

Joshua Bell

#13. Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.

George Szell

#14. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Maya Angelou

#15. 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

#16. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. A: Set the pace and rule the race. Seek new ways to differentiate, new ways to surprise and delight your customers.

Ron Kaufman

#18. The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

Matt Stone

#19. Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

John Astin