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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" American economists can't understand the German fear of inflation and the effects of inflation when dealing with the world economic crisis. They wonder why Germany pursues such a different course - 'Why can't they agree with us?' I would have thought it was fairly obvious. "

" Passionate musicians only come from passionate five-year-olds. "

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

" Every orchestra has its own sound. "

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

" If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble. "

" 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. "

" You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football. "

" I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor. "

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

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

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

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

" If you receive a whole string of bad reviews, you have to say, 'O.K., maybe there's something here we should pay attention to.' "

" 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. "

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

" Yes, I was a weird duck, no doubt. "

" We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music. "

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

Simon Rattle

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" As an older dad you can certainly get down on the floor. The problem is can you get up again? "

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" One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language. "

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

" Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires. "

" Conducting 'Tristan' is like floating in amniotic fluid, but having worked on it for three months, I now know why people who go near it go so strange. "

" Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community. "

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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. "

" The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest. "