English - Musician | January 19, 1955 -
As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'
Simon Rattle
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'Career' is not a musical term.
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'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.
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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.
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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.
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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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I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.
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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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You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.
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We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music.
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The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.
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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.
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