Conducting Quotes

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

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

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.

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.

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

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

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

When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.

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

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.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

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

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.

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!

I love orchestrating music and conducting and being on Broadway.

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.

Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.

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