We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
My only interest is in sharing great music with more and more people. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
There is a mysterious way in which orchestras keep a sense of their history and what they've done. I still listen to… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The jazz records come out a lot. You find that with many musicians - we don't listen to our own music for… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I am old enough to remember the enormous fight over Tate Modern. It is such a part of our cultural landscape now, we forget… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
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… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
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… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. You have no idea how wonderful an orchestra… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
