Top 264 Conducting Quotes & Sayings

I have so much regard for the art of conducting. It's easy to look not so good up there.

I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

I love orchestrating music and conducting and being on Broadway.

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.

We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria.

I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'

Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way than most politicians are able to. He's the only politician I know of who's a monk. The Pope, of course, is in a similar position, but the Pope isn't in the same way leading a country of many million people.

The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.

The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

I really want to get better at conducting.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on.

I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms that I play. And so it's a very organic way. It's a lot like Charles Mingus played, cuing people in from what you play and how you play it rather than standing in front of a band, conducting and pointing.

Conducting is a natural way to participate in one's own music. Almost every 19th-century composer Mendelssohn, Mahler was conducting or playing his own music. Mozart did both.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach. There are very few great conducting teachers, and most great conductors don't teach. Look at Valery Gergiev - what he does is not teachable. A lot of it is on-the-job training, what works and what doesn't work.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.

The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.

Copper is a superb cooking metal, conducting heat so evenly it has unparalleled control, especially at low temperatures.

When I started, I'd never had a conducting lesson in my life; I could just do it.

don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.

No public servant or legislator can claim any privacy to take money for conducting their official functions.

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

It is true [the risk for travel is greater] for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business all over the world as if they are conducting business in their own backyards.

The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.

I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!

I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master's degree in conducting.

Conducting is way over my head.

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.