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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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" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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