Quotes by Conducting On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect. Richard Strauss conducting balance perfect don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm. Richard Strauss conducting audience should I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry. William Carlos Williams conducting fool way «12