Conductor Quotes - Page 9

• We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

  Freya Stark

  Tree, Magic, Sap

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.170, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• [On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Women, Years

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• You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it.

  Dermot O'Leary

  Good Luck, Brilliant, Runaway

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2015

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• There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Suits, Riding, Bikers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political. You cannot conduct properly in this environment. I hate this enemy situation between management and orchestra members.

  Neeme Jarvi

  Hate, America, Political

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• What is a career, actually? Nobody can destroy my career. Only I can destroy my career, if I am a bad conductor. I've gone to lesser known orchestras in Scotland and Sweden, Detroit, but I have enjoyed the places I've been, and had success. I like the close community relations, and to solve problems.

  Neeme Jarvi

  Careers, Scotland, Community

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• I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

  Harriet Tubman

  Railroads, Underground Railroad

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• You are the conductor of your own success train.

  William Cranch Bond

  Great Attitude, Great Positive Attitude, Train

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• I knew that I'd lived in New York too long when, a few years ago, I was on a subway going downtown, and it stopped at 14th Street. At the station, the doors opened, and the conductor announced that there was a bomb on board and we should evacuate immediately. Nobody moved. We just looked at each other, 'Do you see a bomb?' 'I don't see a bomb.' 'There's no bomb.' 'I've only got two stops - let's go for it.

  Lewis Black

  New York, Doors, Years

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• When I'm having a rehearsal and there are new guys who come in to try out for the job, I always let my conductor rehearse them. Because I don't want the guy to get bent out of shape, because I walk in.

  Ray Charles

  Jobs, Guy, Trying

  Source: blankonblank.org

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