Conductor Quotes

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

You know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.

One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

Composers are not all good conductors.

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

You are the conductor of your own success train.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

I played with the best conductors of the world.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

When I got out of college I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!