Quotes by Simon Rattle - Page 2

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.
Simon Rattle / Conductor
Dream
School
Taken
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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.
Simon Rattle / Conductor
Communication
Cards
Extraordinary
Forms
Places
Reach
Table
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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 / Conductor
Impulse
Nature Always People
Nature People Way
Dealing
Drawn
Nature People Always
Forest
Germans
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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 again and again, and then, like some fantastic casserole or spaghetti sauce, put it back in the fridge and let the flavours get together.
Simon Rattle / Conductor
Get Together
Sauce
Spaghetti
Wagner
Time Together Look
Fridge
Screwed
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American economists can't understand the German fear of inflation and the effects of inflation when dealing with the world economic crisis. They wonder why Germany pursues such a different course - 'Why can't they agree with us?' I would have thought it was fairly obvious.
Simon Rattle / Conductor
Agree
Crisis
Economic Crisis
Germany
Inflation
Obvious
Wonder
Fairly
German
Dealing
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I was thrilled that Sadiq Khan was so in support of the idea of culture being at the centre of a city and the idea that it is everyone's right. It can't be a matter of privilege or chance. It should be something everyone can have in their life, and that means knowing what it is.
Simon Rattle / Conductor
Centre
Privilege
Thrilled
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As a nation, we English tend to be self-deprecating, looking down on ourselves. We're insular but also flexible, whereas in Germany, it's a case of besser wissen - we know better. That's very Deutsch. People are never frightened to tell you what you're doing wrong, in a way that would never happen in England.
Simon Rattle / Conductor
Flexible
Frightened
Germany
Self Deprecating
Better People Way
Better Looking People
Insular
Whereas
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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.
Simon Rattle / Conductor
Allowing
Classical Music
Elitist
England
Granted
Mistaken
Opera
Taken
Taken For Granted
Love Music I Am
Case
Classical
Politicians
Earlier
Generation
Loath
Unless
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