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'Pelleas et Melisande' is one of the saddest and most upsetting operas ever written. If you love the opera as I do, then you love it to pieces, obsessively.
~ Simon Rattle
Ever
Love
Most
Opera
Operas
Pieces
Saddest
Then
Upsetting
Written
You
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Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to play a different Haydn piano sonata each day - they are inexhaustible treasures.
~ Simon Rattle
Day
Different
Each
Each Day
Favorite
Had
Inexhaustible
Made
Music
Myself
Piano
Play
Promise
Sabbatical
Some
Treasures
World
Year
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Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing.
~ Simon Rattle
About
Beautifully
How
Much
Musicians
Playing
Sometimes
Too
Too Much
Worry
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The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.
~ Simon Rattle
Around
Better
Conduct
Harder
Often
Orchestra
Other
Way
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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
About
Brilliant
Composer
England
Extraordinary
Hear
Really
Thing
Young
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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
Come
Find
Jazz
Listen
Lot
Many
Music
Musicians
Our
Out
Own
Records
Relaxation
You
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The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. You have no idea how wonderful an orchestra like the London Symphony Orchestra can sound in a great concert hall.
~ Simon Rattle
Concert
Concert Hall
Country
Deserve
Flourish
Great
Hall
How
Idea
Like
London
Lovers
Music
No Idea
Orchestra
Something
Sound
Symphony
Symphony Orchestra
Where
Wonderful
You
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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
Always
Among
Back
Dealing
Drawn
Emotional
Fact
Forest
Germans
Impulse
Maybe
Most
Nation
Nature
Necessity
People
Planet
Powerful
Rules
Way
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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 snooker match. Each orchestra has different things to offer.
~ Simon Rattle
Although
Different
Different Things
Each
Few
Goodness
Great
Like
Match
Offer
Orchestra
Orchestra
Order
People
Put
Ranking
Some
Some People
Thank
Thank Goodness
Them
Things
World
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There is a mysterious way in which orchestras keep a sense of their history and what they've done. I still listen to the L.A. Philharmonic and feel that Giulini was there.
~ Simon Rattle
Done
Feel
History
Keep
Listen
Mysterious
Orchestra
Sense
Still
Way
Which
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We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music.
~ Simon Rattle
Evangelist
High
Just
Just Be
Music
Priests
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We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.
~ Simon Rattle
Bring
Classical
Classical Music
Even
Listen
Music
Need
Normally
People
Those
Who
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What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset.
~ Simon Rattle
Baroque
Counts
Instrument
Mindset
Modern
Really
Whether
Your
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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
Again
Back
Before
Big
Fantastic
Fridge
Get
Get Together
Like
Look
Need
Piece
Pieces
Put
Sauce
Screwed
Some
Spaghetti
Started
Then
Three
Time
Together
Wagner
Years
You
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Yes, I was a weird duck, no doubt.
~ Simon Rattle
Doubt
Duck
No Doubt
Weird
Yes
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You don't like Liverpool: you either loathe it or you love it. And I don't know anyone who loathes it and comes from it.
~ Simon Rattle
Anyone
Either
Know
Like
Liverpool
Loathe
Love
Who
You
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You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.
~ Simon Rattle
Football
Make
Never
People
Play
Play Football
Telling
Them
Train
Watch
Would
You
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