I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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.
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.
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
You are the conductor of your own success train.
A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.
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.
Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops. . .
For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume. . . to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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?
Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.
A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and the father says, 'He's four years old. ' 'He looks at least twelve to me,' says the conductor. And the father says, 'Can I help it if he worries?
Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.