Conducting Quotes

• One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Teaching, Listening, Important

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• I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Jobs, Sex

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

  Golda Meir

  Love, Moving On, Break Up

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

  Lara St. John

  Men, Battle, Prejudice

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• The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

  Dick Cheney

  Mother, Retreat, Force

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• Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

  Carter Burwell

  Missing, Cuffs, Able

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• It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

  Golda Meir

  Heart, Laughing, What If

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Problem, Composing, Havens

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• This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.

  John Boehner

  Israel, Law, Borders

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• This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Careers, Scary, International

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• Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Player, Allies, Diplomatic Relations

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• My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Jobs, Teaching, Writing

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• My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Way, Sound, Doe

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• The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

  Gustav Mahler

  Life, Change, Music

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• I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Teaching, Perspective, Support

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• I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Orchestra, Tempo

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• Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

  Joshua Bell

  Strange, Teach, Strange Things

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• Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Healthy, Profession

  "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'" by Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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• It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

  Winston Churchill

  Temples, Vices, Naked

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Party, Character

  Leon Trotsky (2017). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.596, Penguin UK

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• Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Trying, Orchestra

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• I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Trying, Orchestra

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• This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

  Ossian Everett Mills

  Men, Good Man, Patient

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• The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Somewhere Else, Ideas, Marketing

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