Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.
I love orchestrating music and conducting and being on Broadway.
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph. Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.
In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past 10 years where these officers were involved, this is a shameful incident that the public deserves to have addressed in a meaningful and expeditious manner.
don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.
Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved.
I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.
. . The 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.
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music. . . to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.
Conducting a creativity audit can be very illuminating because it can tell you how the process is working internally and against the competition.
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.
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.
This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.
Arabs and their allies are conducting a total war against Israel. A total war means a war of lies. The PA [Palestinian Authority] promotes lies; lying in Islam is permitted.
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.