Quotes by Conducting One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish. Barbara Tuchman conducting finished research and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty. Charles Dickens conducting herds children 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 conducting should success You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations. Daniel Barenboim conducting variation born I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting i-realized lessons This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting scary careers 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 conducting composing problem I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting composing cutting Conducting was just something that happened by fluke. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting flukes happened I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo. Eugene Ormandy conducting orchestra funny I love orchestrating music and conducting and being on Broadway. Harry Connick, Jr. conducting broadway Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t. Jay McInerney conducting limits matter Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession. Jeffrey Tate conducting profession healthy Conducting is a strange thing to teach. Joshua Bell conducting teach strange Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever! Kirsten Dunst conducting conferences normal Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time. Leonard Bernstein conducting making-love people When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole. Michael Ian Black conducting savages writing I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad? Neville Marriner conducting regret wish I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me. Placido Domingo conducting expecting careers Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra. Quincy Jones conducting adopted 12»