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" I am old enough to remember the enormous fight over Tate Modern. It is such a part of our cultural landscape now, we forget the opposition to it. "

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" There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not like a snooker match. Each orchestra has different things to offer. "

" I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him. "

" In my mid-twenties, I was with a conducting career, but I had never been to university and I wanted to. There were things I wanted to study in depth. I also wanted to see if I could survive without music. "

" The grapevine in England is an extraordinary thing. When there is a really brilliant young composer or soloist, we all hear about it. "

" I was a harpsichordist in my teens, and there was a bunch of us in Liverpool who got together every week to play Bach. "

" I believe if you're not completely in love with what you're doing, you'd better find another profession. "

" My only interest is in sharing great music with more and more people. "

" You don't like Liverpool: you either loathe it or you love it. And I don't know anyone who loathes it and comes from it. "

" The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around. "

" I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony. "

" Always the journey, never the destination. "

" What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset. "

" As a nation, we English tend to be self-deprecating, looking down on ourselves. We're insular but also flexible, whereas in Germany, it's a case of besser wissen - we know better. That's very Deutsch. People are never frightened to tell you what you're doing wrong, in a way that would never happen in England. "

" Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing. "

" Liverpool is off the side of the known universe, and it always was. New York is the only other place comparable. "

" I was thrilled that Sadiq Khan was so in support of the idea of culture being at the centre of a city and the idea that it is everyone's right. It can't be a matter of privilege or chance. It should be something everyone can have in their life, and that means knowing what it is. "

" Every orchestra has its own sound. "

" The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. You have no idea how wonderful an orchestra like the London Symphony Orchestra can sound in a great concert hall. "

" I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy. "

" Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians. "

" Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young. "

" Oh Lord... I don't really do pride. "

" I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it. "

" Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires. "

" I think we will find more and more ways in which technology invades our artistic spaces, so music is something you will need more than ever because it is there in time and in space and for that moment only. "

" Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to play a different Haydn piano sonata each day - they are inexhaustible treasures. "

" Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven as though it was background and a comfort, and I think that is very dangerous. "

" The jazz records come out a lot. You find that with many musicians - we don't listen to our own music for relaxation. "

" We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music. "

" There is a mysterious way in which orchestras keep a sense of their history and what they've done. I still listen to the L.A. Philharmonic and feel that Giulini was there. "