#conductor

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#began #bell #contact #could #direct

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out. ↗

— James Levine

#comes #conductor #deciding #delusion #factor

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot. ↗

— James Levine

#big problem #conductors #gesture #i #lot

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#conductor #disappear #evidence #functions #himself

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

#conductor #find #functions #i #led

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

#classical #conductor #engineer #i #makes

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience. ↗

— George Szell

#choreography #conductors #give #must #orchestra

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. ↗