Ludwig Goransson Quotes

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Good conductors know when to push and when to lay back. I've known so many great conductors that I'm still doing what I can to learn the craft of this role.

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

Composers are not all good conductors.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach. There are very few great conducting teachers, and most great conductors don't teach. Look at Valery Gergiev - what he does is not teachable. A lot of it is on-the-job training, what works and what doesn't work.

Conductors are performers.

Conducting is more difficult than playing a single instrument. You have to know the culture, to know the score, and to project what you want to hear. Some conductors are well prepared but cannot transmit their ideas to an orchestra, and others are good communicators but have nothing to transmit because they are not absorbed enough in the score.

I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back, and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film, and I think I am growing with each movie.

I have to evolve as an actor.

Conducting is way over my head.

Phrasing is the idea of finding sentences and using punctuation in speech. I often look at the score to see what's written in by the composer to see if I can find clues to those directions, like what direction did the composer have in mind, and I try to incorporate those things as much as possible.