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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. "
Simon Rattle
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" I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Always the journey, never the destination. "
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" I believe if you're not completely in love with what you're doing, you'd better find another profession. "
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" 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.' "
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" We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music. "
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" You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football. "
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" Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble. "
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" 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. "
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" We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music. "
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" Every orchestra has its own sound. "
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" I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief. "
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