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ANUJ SOMANY The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
ANTON SEIDL Of course, experience strengthens one later.
ANTON SEIDL Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
ANTON SEIDL It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its...
ANTON SEIDL It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing th...
ANTON SEIDL I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparent...
ANTON SEIDL I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German ar...
ANTON SEIDL Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real ...
ANTON SEIDL America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music school...
ANTON SEIDL Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.
SIMON RATTLE Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with ...
TERRY TEACHOUT When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they w...
ALBERTO MORAVIA Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept i...
SERGEI LUKYANENKO![]()
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ...
BRIAN GREENE![]()
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The majority of the composers in Icebreaker III are not known outside their region.
ELENA DUBINETS Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
KURT MASUR Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)![]()
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE![]()
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Perhaps Anton was a bit unlucky not to get into the senior squad, but he should not let his head dro...
PETER TAYLOR Women conductors are like black quarterbacks leaders who set the tone for the team,
JAMES DEPREIST![]()
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the...
IGOR STRAVINSKY I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
DAVID DEL TREDICI Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the a...
GEORGE SZELL Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the ...
GEORGE SZELL![]()
Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.
NEIL GAIMAN![]()
I think that live shows are more important for singers than composers, because composers still get a...
ARMAAN MALIK He's in the mould of (retired Blue Bulls No 8) Anton Leonard.
DICK MUIR Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy ...
DAVID DEL TREDICI Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new...
ROBERT H. GRUBBS I was different from most young conductors today.
KURT MASUR Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling r...
STEVEN ADLER We must take more time for promising young conductors. The famous conductors have no time for teachi...
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of ...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH Our conductors found it much easier to move a dog or a pet when they're not in a crate.
DAN BRUCKER Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye...
RUTH REINHARDT All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.
JAMES TENNEY Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
CARLISLE FLOYD![]()
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I thin...
GENE WILDER Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them th...
LOUISE TALMA![]()
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM![]()
People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; beca...
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN![]()
The statues of archdukes or composers presided with pensive nonchalance.
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR Now, very few composers write for themselves.
JENNIFER HIGDON![]()
Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL the most gifted of the new generation of American conductors.
DAVID ROBERTSON Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.
JOHN BARBIROLLI I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great Ame...
CHARLIE HADEN![]()
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in t...
BLAINE LEE Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.
JOHN EATON He is expert in classical music. He knew the composers and knew their lives. He read their biographi...
DIANE JACOBOWITZ![]()
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
ZUBIN MEHTA![]()
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
EDGARD VARESE![]()
Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does c...
JOSHUA BELL Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Can you imagine what most conductors would do if I wrote one?
GIUSEPPE VERDI Conducting is more difficult than playing a single instrument. You have to know the culture, to know...
PIERRE BOULEZ Fell?' he asked. 'Or was pushed?'
Anton shrugged again. 'It hardly makes a difference,' h...
MICHAEL MONTOURE I have tremendous respect for film composers.
JOHN CORIGLIANO He seems enthusiastic about us as instrumentalists and composers. He likes what we do, so he says he...
AARON PARKS The biggest goal was to just give composers a chance to come together and discuss among themselves i...
CHUCK OWEN Whether one calls oneself conservative or revolutionary, whether one composers in a conventional or ...
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG![]()
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthet...
BILL CONTI![]()
Composers shouldn't think too much it interferes with their plagiarism
HOWARD DIETZ I always make it a point to teach them to know what they are singing, its purpose, composers, and hi...
CHARLIE TOOMER There are situations where directors give composers directives just to give them directives Just to ...
DON DAVIS One thing [the composers] bring to the show is a sense of not playing down to the audience. The musi...
JEFFREY LESSER It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, emp...
JOSHUA REDMAN I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in ...
MAURICE RAVEL There's no crusade here, but I am trying to slip classical music in through the back door, ... I thi...
WILLIAM ORBIT There are very few top conductors in this world. You need incredible authority, experience, charisma...
JAHJA LING Columbia has this contemporary civilization program - western philosophy and political thought. The ...
CASEY AFFLECK How can we associate all this with Muslims? All Muslims are not bad and all Hindus are not good.
MAHENDRA TANNA![]()
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyo...
PABLO CASALS Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyo...
PAU (PABLO) CASALS![]()
Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from every...
PABLO CASALS![]()
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you&#...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM![]()
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
ANTON CHEKHOV![]()
It was, for him, an object lesson in the importance of the “better out than in” free speech argu...
SALMAN RUSHDIE On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to cond...
EBERHARD WEBER![]()
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
JAMES COOK Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the...
CHET HUNTLEY Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the...
CHET HUNTLEY They have been playing exceptionally well. They're a young combination developing, our lineout has b...
GREG COOPER They have been playing exceptionally well. They're a young combination developing. Our lineout has b...
GREG COOPER I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting ...
GAVIN BRYARS![]()
But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and...
CARLA BLEY IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE![]()
Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.
HOWARD DIETZ I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
ENYA
ANUJ SOMANY The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
ANTON SEIDL Of course, experience strengthens one later.
ANTON SEIDL Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
ANTON SEIDL It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its...
ANTON SEIDL It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing th...
ANTON SEIDL I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparent...
ANTON SEIDL I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German ar...
ANTON SEIDL Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real ...
ANTON SEIDL America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music school...
ANTON SEIDL Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.
SIMON RATTLE Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with ...
TERRY TEACHOUT When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they w...
ALBERTO MORAVIA Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept i...
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ... BRIAN GREENE
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. LEONARD BERNSTEIN The majority of the composers in Icebreaker III are not known outside their region.
ELENA DUBINETS Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
KURT MASUR Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. MINNIE MADDERN FISKE
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. ETHEL BARRYMORE Perhaps Anton was a bit unlucky not to get into the senior squad, but he should not let his head dro...
PETER TAYLOR Women conductors are like black quarterbacks leaders who set the tone for the team,
JAMES DEPREIST
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the... IGOR STRAVINSKY I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
DAVID DEL TREDICI Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the a...
GEORGE SZELL Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the ...
GEORGE SZELL
Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers. NEIL GAIMAN
I think that live shows are more important for singers than composers, because composers still get a... ARMAAN MALIK He's in the mould of (retired Blue Bulls No 8) Anton Leonard.
DICK MUIR Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy ...
DAVID DEL TREDICI Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new...
ROBERT H. GRUBBS I was different from most young conductors today.
KURT MASUR Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling r...
STEVEN ADLER We must take more time for promising young conductors. The famous conductors have no time for teachi...
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of ...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH Our conductors found it much easier to move a dog or a pet when they're not in a crate.
DAN BRUCKER Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye...
RUTH REINHARDT All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.
JAMES TENNEY Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
CARLISLE FLOYD
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I thin... GENE WILDER Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them th...
LOUISE TALMA
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; beca... ROBERT A. SCHUMANN
The statues of archdukes or composers presided with pensive nonchalance. PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR Now, very few composers write for themselves.
JENNIFER HIGDON
Wherever you are, be all there. CRAIG GROESCHEL the most gifted of the new generation of American conductors.
DAVID ROBERTSON Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.
JOHN BARBIROLLI I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great Ame...
CHARLIE HADEN
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in t... BLAINE LEE Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.
JOHN EATON He is expert in classical music. He knew the composers and knew their lives. He read their biographi...
DIANE JACOBOWITZ
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras. ZUBIN MEHTA
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. EDGARD VARESE
Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does c... JOSHUA BELL Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Can you imagine what most conductors would do if I wrote one?
GIUSEPPE VERDI Conducting is more difficult than playing a single instrument. You have to know the culture, to know...
PIERRE BOULEZ Fell?' he asked. 'Or was pushed?'
Anton shrugged again. 'It hardly makes a difference,' h...
MICHAEL MONTOURE I have tremendous respect for film composers.
JOHN CORIGLIANO He seems enthusiastic about us as instrumentalists and composers. He likes what we do, so he says he...
AARON PARKS The biggest goal was to just give composers a chance to come together and discuss among themselves i...
CHUCK OWEN Whether one calls oneself conservative or revolutionary, whether one composers in a conventional or ...
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthet... BILL CONTI
Composers shouldn't think too much it interferes with their plagiarism HOWARD DIETZ I always make it a point to teach them to know what they are singing, its purpose, composers, and hi...
CHARLIE TOOMER There are situations where directors give composers directives just to give them directives Just to ...
DON DAVIS One thing [the composers] bring to the show is a sense of not playing down to the audience. The musi...
JEFFREY LESSER It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, emp...
JOSHUA REDMAN I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in ...
MAURICE RAVEL There's no crusade here, but I am trying to slip classical music in through the back door, ... I thi...
WILLIAM ORBIT There are very few top conductors in this world. You need incredible authority, experience, charisma...
JAHJA LING Columbia has this contemporary civilization program - western philosophy and political thought. The ...
CASEY AFFLECK How can we associate all this with Muslims? All Muslims are not bad and all Hindus are not good.
MAHENDRA TANNA
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyo... PABLO CASALS Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyo...
PAU (PABLO) CASALS
Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from every... PABLO CASALS
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you&#... STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning. ANTON CHEKHOV
It was, for him, an object lesson in the importance of the “better out than in” free speech argu... SALMAN RUSHDIE On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to cond...
EBERHARD WEBER
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due. JAMES COOK Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the...
CHET HUNTLEY Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the...
CHET HUNTLEY They have been playing exceptionally well. They're a young combination developing, our lineout has b...
GREG COOPER They have been playing exceptionally well. They're a young combination developing. Our lineout has b...
GREG COOPER I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting ...
GAVIN BRYARS
But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat... LEWIS CARROLL Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and...
CARLA BLEY IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE
Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism. HOWARD DIETZ I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
ENYA
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. 
The more refined one is, the more unhappy. 
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. 