#conduct

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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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

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This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

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You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. ↗

— William Howard Taft

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I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to. ↗

— George Tenet

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When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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