English - Musician | January 19, 1955 -
The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest.
Simon Rattle
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Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.
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I think the English are an unbelievably musical nation and always have been.
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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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Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing.
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I was a harpsichordist in my teens, and there was a bunch of us in Liverpool who got together every week to play Bach.
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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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Liverpool is off the side of the known universe, and it always was. New York is the only other place comparable.
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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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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.
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Passionate musicians only come from passionate five-year-olds.
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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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