One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief. Simon Rattle Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The jazz records come out a lot. You find that with many musicians – we don’t listen to our own music for relaxation. Simon Rattle Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’d be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony. Simon Rattle Read Quote
The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around. Simon Rattle Read Quote
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. Simon Rattle Read Quote
