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So many times, I've seen conductors that, every time they have a thought, they stop the orchestra and say it, and I can see the orchestra rolling their eyes and saying, 'Oh, God, he stopped again.' So there's a technique to rehearsing. Joshua Bell
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There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched. Damien Chazelle
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There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do the orchestra. And then there are great conductors, who have their own opinion on the music, who are ruling everything - and not listening much to the singers, but the orchestra play amazingly. Anna Netrebko
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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. Zubin Mehta
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Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new structures.
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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.
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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.
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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience. George Szell
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When she said she would no longer be our conductor we were lost.
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If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures. Clint Eastwood
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The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.
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Our conductors found it much easier to move a dog or a pet when they're not in a crate.
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A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that, things have to feel natural.
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I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence. Jeffrey Tate
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Can you imagine what most conductors would do if I wrote one? Giuseppe Verdi
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The conductor said that I won precisely because I made this mistake and managed to continue playing. J. C. Watts
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The Earth will control these sounds just as a conductor controls an orchestra by moving a baton. Ken Goldberg
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It's different for people who have not seen a symphony conductor conduct from a chair. I feel very connected to the orchestra in a way that a conductor sometimes does not feel. I think it's more visceral.