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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

He's the lightning, and I am simply a conductor. We were always bound to converge. — A. Zavarelli

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 find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill. — Franz Liszt

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor. — Kurt Masur

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops ... — Jon Champion

The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity. — Judith Hooper

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer. — Lisa Loeb

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

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed. — Anton Seidl

Predict the actions of every conductor from New Orleans to Cincinnati, would — Harper Lee

[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

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera. — Nina Arianda

The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone. — Joshua Bell

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

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more. — Kurt Masur

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

...my life is the train wreck. You, my dear, are the conductor on the Hot Mess Express — B.L. Berry

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

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say. — Isaac Stern

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

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems. — Zubin Mehta

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

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them ... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost. — John Muir

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard. — Zubin Mehta

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 best
conductors of the world. — Mstislav Rostropovich

A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated. — Orly Wahba

If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony. — Peter Kreeft

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

You stand exactly in the middle, poised between heaven and earth, a human conductor for the energy that seeks to flow between these two polarities. — Margot Anand

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience. — Andre Kostelanetz

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story? — Jean Webster

You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you. — Lee J. Colan