Conducting Quotes

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, Laugh, Whole

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Great, Government, Reality

With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.
Gus Van Sant

Good, Experience, Laugh

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Gustav Mahler

Art, Real, Consists

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
Julie Burchill

Women, Living, Start

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.
Dick Cheney

Mother, Forces, Iraqi

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

Law, Both, Simply

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

Life, Job, Write

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

Able, Off, Once

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
Placido Domingo

Great, Career, Prove

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
Roland Joffe

Work, Trying, Whole

And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.
James Levine

Work, Time, Pretty

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

Good, Men, Today

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.
John Abizaid

Military, Side, Correct

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

Experience, Career, Happened

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music, Experience, Sound

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music, Act, Miss

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, Times, Perhaps

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

Sex, Job, Woman

It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.
Charles Sturt

Success, Great, Future

The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.
David Lloyd

Book, Last, Beginning

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.
Joshua Bell

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.
Peter Garrett

Change, Find, Start

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
Anton Seidl

Real, Might, Found

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
Gustavo Dudamel

Real, Remember, Old

For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.
Gustavo Dudamel

Work, Children, Together

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.
Harry Mathews

Thought, Before, Play

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

Important, Three, Listening

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

Important, Different, Learn

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
Douglas Feith

While, Anybody, Diplomacy

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