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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I can’t imagine what my school friends must have thought was going on because I was wandering around in some kind of dream. I felt as though my insides had been taken out which is, I now realize, the right feeling.

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

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Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.

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Always the journey, never the destination. by Simon Rattle

Always the journey, never the destination.

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What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or mo... by Simon Rattle

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires. by Simon Rattle

Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.

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

Yes, I was a weird duck, no doubt.

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

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

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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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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.

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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.

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If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life... by Simon Rattle

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

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As an older dad you can certainly get down on the floor. The prob... by Simon Rattle

As an older dad you can certainly get down on the floor. The problem is can you get up again?

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Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians.

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Oh Lord... I don't really do pride. by Simon Rattle

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

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I am old enough to remember the enormous fight over Tate Modern. It is such a part of our cultural landscape now, we forget the opposition to it.

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