Quotes and Sayings About Conducting

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

#Children #Herds #Conducting

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 Sturt

#Conducting #Should #Operations

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Variation #Conducting #Born

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

#Problem #Conducting #Composing

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Careers #Scary #Conducting

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.
-- Eugene Ormandy

#Funny #Orchestra #Conducting

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.
-- Jay McInerney

#Matter #Limits #Conducting

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
-- Jeffrey Tate

#Healthy #Conducting #Profession

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.
-- Joshua Bell

#Strange #Conducting #Teach

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
-- Placido Domingo

#Careers #Expecting #Conducting

don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.
-- Richard Strauss

#Conducting #Should #Audience

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

#Way #Fool #Conducting