“Young conductors talk too much.”
Pierre Monteux (1875–1964) French conductor
From Monteux, Doris G (1965). It's All in the Music: The Life and Work of Pierre Monteux. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. OCLC 604146, p. 196
Emptiness Is A Conductor
Artifacts Of The Winged (2003)
“Young conductors talk too much.”
Pierre Monteux (1875–1964) French conductor
From Monteux, Doris G (1965). It's All in the Music: The Life and Work of Pierre Monteux. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. OCLC 604146, p. 196
“Ten Golden Rules (for the album of a young conductor)”
Richard Strauss (1864–1949) German composer and orchestra director
Recollections and Reflections
“You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
Quoted in Oskar von Riesemann (trans. Dolly Rutherford) Rachmaninoff's Recollections (New York: Macmillan, 1934) p. 155.
Harriet Tubman (1820–1913) African-American abolitionist and humanitarian
As quoted in Women's Words : The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women (1996) by Mary Biggs, p. 2
“My type is dying out of the theatre. I'm a conductor who has to ORCHESTRATE the whole thing.”
Taubie Kushlick (1910–1991) South African actor and director
Sunday Times interview (1980s)
“Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
"Grass" (1918)
Context: p>Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work —
I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?</p
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
The Cambridge Companion to Conducting p. 16.
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Dying Detective
Source: The Adventure of the Dying Detective