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

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" One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief. "

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" 'Pelleas et Melisande' is one of the saddest and most upsetting operas ever written. If you love the opera as I do, then you love it to pieces, obsessively. "

" In England, unless I am mistaken, I think some of the politicians who love classical music and opera are a bit loath to be seen there in case people think it is elitist. That is a real shame because it also means we are not allowing our politicians a hinterland that an earlier generation, a Denis Healey, would have taken for granted. "

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

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

" With these big Wagner pieces, if I haven't started three years before, I'm screwed. You need time to look at the piece again and again and again, and then, like some fantastic casserole or spaghetti sauce, put it back in the fridge and let the flavours get together. "

" I think the English are an unbelievably musical nation and always have been. "

" 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. "

" As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?' "

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

" 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. "

" I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways, it's a blessing. It makes them cautious. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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