Conducting Quotes
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It's been very exciting for me to start directing and conducting, exploring the symphonic repertoire, which I've always loved.
— Joshua Bell
If human is capable of conducting genocide,
no need for an asteroid to wipe out dinosaurs. — Toba Beta
no need for an asteroid to wipe out dinosaurs. — Toba Beta
Conducting in a church in London where, he said,
— Elizabeth Jane Howard
Am I conducting myself in a manner worthy of the gospel? is a good question for us to ask ourselves regularly.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.
— Richard Strauss
In this flirtation he was conducting, he had had to rely entirely on his personality, never a good idea.
— Jane Smiley
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
— Daniel Barenboim
Don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.
— Richard Strauss
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
— Gustav Mahler
Everyone was searching for something, conducting lively arguments, getting excited, but behind it all one felt weariness, disillusion, emptiness.
— Ilya Ehrenburg
I never use a score when conducting my orchestra ... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?
— Dimitris Mitropoulos
Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!
— Kirsten Dunst
The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
Man imagines himself to be conducting his own life; and irresistibly his inmost being is drawn to its fate.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.
— Roger Wicker
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.
— Gustavo Dudamel
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
— Anton Seidl
I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.
— Itzhak Perlman
In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.
— George S. Patton
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
— Quincy Jones
I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Warlords who fail in conducting war tend to fall from grace quickly.
— Raymond E. Feist
One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
— Barbara Tuchman
I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.
— Eugene Ormandy
I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
— Placido Domingo
Increasingly being used for routine duties such as conducting liquor inspections and serving warrants.
— Anonymous
In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.
— Joshua Bell
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music ... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
— Daniel Barenboim
He argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.
— Susanna Clarke
Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.
— Daniel Barenboim
Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'
— Jimmy Fallon
I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Conducting is a strange thing to teach.
— Joshua Bell
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
— Julie Burchill
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren't.
— Jay McInerney
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
— Henry Taylor
We are not hiding things from the American people, but China everyday is conducting business in a way that hides things from their people.
— Chris Christie
The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.
— Pierre Boulez
I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
— Douglas Feith
Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.
— David Lloyd
I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?
— Neville Marriner
Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.
— Mike Simpson
But those of us who follow his conducting through early movements will, with renewed strength, someday burst into song.
— Philip Yancey
I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day
— John Wooden
Whether you're conducting phone interviews or simply need to hear yourself think, privacy is an extremely important variable in the writing life.
— Sage Cohen
The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.
— Herbert Von Karajan
There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.
— Frank Schaeffer
There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.
— Dalai Lama
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
— David Hare
But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.
— Ann Patchett
Love is taking care of oneself by freeing one's mind of worries and conducting one self with propriety.
— Master Cheng Yen
Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.
— Leonard Bernstein