Conductor Quotes

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

You know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

Composers are not all good conductors.

You are the conductor of your own success train.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

When I got out of college I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

I played with the best conductors of the world.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.