Conducts Quotes

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.