#conductor

Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much. ↗

— John Barbirolli

#conductors #do you know #know #live #long

My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#critical #damage #developed #devices #electrons

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#conductors #eight #i #i can #lost

To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank; make some marks there. Many people are reading you. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#blank-paper #book #books #conductor #diarry

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#asked #conductor #create #hear #i

Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#anymore #audience #back #cd #classical

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#great #luminous #ones #stage

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

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#conductor #every #feel #i #instantaneously

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

#being #coach #conductor #director #editor