A Quote by Michael Tilson Thomas

Conductors are performers.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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Conductors Performers

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Michael Tilson Thomas
American - Musician
Born: December 21, 1944

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

Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians.

Simon Rattle

I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and the real conductors, the professional conductors at the time were not interested in our stuff.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs.

Rue McClanahan

There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do the orchestra. And then there are great conductors, who have their own opinion on the music, who are ruling everything - and not listening much to the singers, but the orchestra play amazingly.

Anna Netrebko

There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going literally when the power is gone and performers who haven't had that much experience and will panic and freak out and don't know what to do.

El-P

There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going, literally, when the power is gone and performers who haven't had that much experience and will panic and freak out and don't know what to do.

El-P

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

Robin Sharma

I would not correct dancers if I was performing, because I don't believe in performers correcting other performers.

Ann Reinking

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

Anna Faris

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

Tony Bennett

I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.

Lena Horne

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

Paul Lansky

The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit.

Brian Tracy

Some of the most powerful female performers I've seen balance the feminine and the masculine and are incredibly strong. Like, I think Hayley Williams is one of the best rock performers.

Lauren Mayberry

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