Best quotes by Simon Rattle on Music

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

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

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• ‟ In England, unless I am mistaken, I think some of the politicians who love classical music and opera are a bit loath to be seen there in case people think it is elitist. That is a real shame because it also means we are not allowing our politicians a hinterland that an earlier generation, a Denis Healey, would have taken for granted.

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

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

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

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• ‟ I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

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

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• ‟ My only interest is in sharing great music with more and more people.

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