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Simon Rattle

Simon Rattle

English Musician

Born: Jan 19, 1955

Always Great Music People Think You

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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. Simon Rattle

Music Myself Day World Made Year Favorite Promise Some Sabbatical Sonata Piano Had Inexhaustible Different Each Each Day Play Treasures

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

Funny Composers Ducks Very Interesting

The grapevine in England is an extraordinary thing. When there is a really brilliant young composer or soloist, we all hear about it. Simon Rattle

Brilliant Young Extraordinary Composer About Hear Really England Thing

There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not like a snooker match. Each orchestra has different things to offer. Simon Rattle

Every orchestra has its own sound. Simon Rattle

Own Every Sound Orchestra

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

Mindset Counts Instrument Modern Whether Really Your Baroque

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

People Community Embodiment Sonic Like Orchestra

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

Music You Learning Young Birthright Start

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. Simon Rattle

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

Love Hash Make Terrible Often Mozart

Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires. Simon Rattle

Good Everybody Everybody Else Else Retires Conductors Getting Start

Yes, I was a weird duck, no doubt. Simon Rattle

Doubt No Doubt Weird Duck Yes

Passionate musicians only come from passionate five-year-olds. Simon Rattle

Musicians Only Come Passionate

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

Think More Him Beethoven Shock Than Means Stressed

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. Simon Rattle

Music Communication Language Think Other Extraordinary Our Kinds Table Put Reach Most Greatest Cannot Places Forms Things Cards

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

Life Music You Business Trouble Big Think Music Business End-All

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. Simon Rattle

Life Culture Matter Everyone Khan City Something Thrilled Support Idea Knowing Privilege Being Centre Should Means Right Chance

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

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. Simon Rattle

Love You Loathe Like Know Anyone Either Who Liverpool

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