Art Quote by Simon Rattle

Every orchestra has its own sound.

— Simon Rattle

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

— Simon Rattle

Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.

— Simon Rattle

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

— Simon Rattle

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Simon Rattle

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

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