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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Always the journey, never the destination. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires. "

" It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven as though it was background and a comfort, and I think that is very dangerous. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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