quotes about Conducting
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and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
-- Charles Dickens -
It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.
-- Charles SturtSource : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.68
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
-- Daniel Barenboim -
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 -
I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.
-- Jay McInerney -
Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
-- Jeffrey TateSource : "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'" by Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.
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I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
-- Placido Domingo -
don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.
-- Richard Strauss -
I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.
-- William Carlos Williams -