British Conductor Quotes

Thomas Beecham

Leopold Stokowski

Constant Lambert

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same.

Constant Lambert

You put your right arm in,
Your right arm out
In, out, in, out and shake it all about.
You do the hokey cokey and you turn around,
And that's what it's all about.

Conducting is the sound of a musician who makes no sound.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

Leopold Stokowski