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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Always the journey, never the destination. "

" My worst and best qualities are rashness: the good part of it is due to youth, which is, of course, why I'm not a great conductor. "

" Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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