Conductors Quotations | Page 2

Good conductors know when to push and when to lay back. I've known so many great conductors that I'm still doing what I can to learn the craft of this role.

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.

Can you imagine what most conductors would do if I wrote one?

Ormsby has long been recognized as one of the finest ballet conductors anywhere and we wish him every success in New York City. We are thrilled that he has agreed to continue to work with us as guest conductor.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.

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

Our conductors found it much easier to move a dog or a pet when they're not in a crate.

As long as we are producing concerts, we saw no reason not to have discussions with the conductors coming in. They all know where we are.

Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.