If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
[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.
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
A conductor should guide rather than command.
As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.
When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?
Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.
Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.
And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
I played with the best conductors of the world.
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
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.
Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor
So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.
