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As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.
— Erin O'Connor
We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.
— William Ralph Inge
You know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.
— John Barbirolli
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
— Kurt Masur
The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity.
— Judith Hooper
You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it.
— Dermot O'Leary
Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.
— Igor Markevitch
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.
— Edward Gardner
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.
— Giuseppe Verdi
When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.
— Leonard Bernstein
[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?
— Mary McLeod Bethune
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
— Nicholas Meyer
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
— Harriet Tubman
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
— Richard Wagner
All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.
— Colin R. Davis
I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The conductor was so totally without expression he could have pulled off a bank robbery without covering his face.
— Haruki Murakami
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
— Igor Stravinsky
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.
— Michael Tilson Thomas
What love is to the heart, appetite is to the stomach. The stomach is the conductor that leads and livens up the great orchestra of our emotions.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we're listening.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
— Igor Stravinsky
Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
— Jason Bateman
Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor
— Robert Tisserand
En voiture, Monsieur,' said the Wagon Lit conductor.
— Agatha Christie
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
— Riccardo Muti
A conductor should guide rather than command.
— Riccardo Muti
There's nothing quite like a real ... train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
— Anita Diament
I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.
— Little Richard
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
— Anton Seidl
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.
— Itzhak Perlman
You are the composer and conductor and thus decide what key of life to live. I choose major over minor whenever I can.
— Susan Reynolds
An air of infinite reluctance M. Poirot climbed aboard the train. The conductor climbed after him.
— Agatha Christie
I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.
— Jeffrey Tate
Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.
— Richard C. Armitage
A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.
— Mark William Roche
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
— John Dryden
Wherever there's a conductor, you're sure to find a dead composer!
— Daniel Handler
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
— Bernard Arnault
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
— Neville Marriner
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
— Anthony Hopkins
The carpenter, lab technician, and conductor are all craftsmen because they are dedicated to good work for its own sake.
— Richard Sennett
The conductor of an orchestra doesn't make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
— Benjamin Zander
I played with the bestconductors of the world. — Mstislav Rostropovich
A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.
— Orly Wahba
Love is the foundation, the mechanism and the conductor of life.
— Daniel Marques
You are the conductor of your own success train.
— William Cranch Bond
One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people to agree on where "now" actually is.
— Michael Tilson Thomas
The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.
— Andre Kostelanetz
