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Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

~Alan J. Pakula

Topics: Actor Anyway Conductors Directors Faces Hands Like Looking Orchestra Realize Tendency Use

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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

Topics: Also Amazingly Conductor Conductors Everything Good Great Listen Listening Much Music Opinion Orchestra Own Passionate Play Ruling Singers Then Two Types Who

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Composers are not all good conductors.

~Anton Seidl

Topics: Composers Conductors Good

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The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

~Anton Seidl

Topics: Been Composers Conceived Conductors Could Direct Had Interpreting Longer Performance Person Placed Responsibility Spirit Which Works

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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

~Blaine Lee

Topics: Best Beyond Conductors Great Great Leaders Leaders Like Magic Notes Players Reach

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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

Topics: Able Aspects Conducting Conductors Grasp Lot Missing More Off Once Quickly Realized Simply Subtle Tried Watching Were I Tried

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When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky has been a revelation - he brings out all its raw passion. And Gergiev with the super-virtuoso LSO - well, it's just the perfect combination.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Been Brings Combination Conduct Conductors He Hearing Just Made Me Out Passion Perfect Raw Revelation Ruined Slick Well Who Young

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You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

~David Ogden Stiers

Topics: Begins Conductors Deeper Different Hear Itself Live Orchestra Reveals Same Singers Slowly Work You

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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

~Eberhard Weber

Topics: Awful Because Biographies Closer Conduct Conductors Dictator Enough Fail Famous Give Hand Orchestra Other People Person Pretty Private Read Realize Relationships Requires Thought Who You

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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

~Ethel Barrymore

Topics: Actor Conductors Great Luminous Stage

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