#conductor

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

#better #build #conductor #cooperate #encouraged

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#chip #complex #computer #fabrication #facilities

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors. ↗

— Antonio Perez

#chemistry #digital #imaging #much #semiconductors

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? ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#central #composition #conductor #convey #does

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

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

— George Szell

#choreography #conductors #give #must #orchestra

I was different from most young conductors today. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#different #i #most #today #young

A conductor should guide rather than command. ↗