#conductor

I suspect every conductor was once an air traffic controller, but the catastrophe was so terrible that they never speak of it. ↗

— Bauvard

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You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs. ↗

— Rue McClanahan

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The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors. ↗

— Anton Seidl

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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. ↗

— Blaine Lee

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A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

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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

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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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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

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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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