Listen Quote by Simon Rattle

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

— Andre Previn

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down…

— Charles Bukowski

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

— Glen Campbell

When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He…

— Ayn Rand

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another…

— Philip Kitcher

I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.

— Simon Rattle

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.

— Andre Previn

Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.

— Ennio Morricone

There is just something about a symphony that moves my soul.

— Lorrie Morgan

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

— Gustav Mahler

Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.

— Nico Muhly

The Boston Symphony is one of the best orchestras in the world and has such a great tradition - which I want to cherish,…

— Andris Nelsons