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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Always the journey, never the destination. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every orchestra has its own sound. "

" 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. "

" Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing. "

" 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. "