Conducting Quotes - Page 2

• The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

  Roland Joffe

  Trying, Directors, Actors

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• The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

  Herbert von Karajan

  Art, Play, Knowing

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• Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

  Colin Davis

  Breathing, Piano, Singing

  "Sir Colin Davis obituary" by David Nice, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2013.

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

  Placido Domingo

  Careers, Expecting, Prove

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• Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

  Peter Garrett

  Issues, Understanding, Research

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Phones, Done, Orchestra

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• I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

  Dimitris Mitropoulos

  Book, Musical, Doe

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• The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Air, Missing, Sensual

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• The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

  Aldrich Ames

  Agency, Tasks, Unions

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• Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

  Anton Seidl

  Real, Book, Might

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press

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• We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.

  Ali Khamenei

  Believe, People, Agents

  "Iran: U.S., Israel Behind Iraq Beheadings". www.foxnews.com. July 13, 2004.

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• 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

  Success, Should, Operations

  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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• My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

  Harry Mathews

  Play, Ideas, Paris

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• In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

  David Amram

  Thinking, Feelings, Orchestra

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• While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

  George Combe

  Character, Law, Scotland

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• When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Years, Europe, Firsts

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• Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Birthday, San Francisco, Giving

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• That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

  Morton Gould

  Piano, Fundamentals, Done

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• Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Real, Government, Reform

  Interview with Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February 2003.

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• And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.

  James Levine

  Depth, Guests, Littles

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• What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.

  Julian Assange

  War, Iraq, Perception

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on Iraq War Logs, 'Tabloid Journalism' and Why WikiLeaks Is 'Under Siege'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 26, 2010.

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• God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Musical, Sound, Way

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• I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Practice, Nba

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• Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

  Elisabeth Murdoch

  Garden, Thinking, Symphony

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

  Richard Strauss

  Should, Audience, Warm

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