Simon Rattle quotes

Simon Rattle quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.”
-- Simon Rattle

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“I canâ€™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

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“Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.”
-- Simon Rattle

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“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

#Dream Quotes #Taken Quotes #School Quotes

“I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.”
“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.”

Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
“There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press
“I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.”
“Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.”
“It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.”

Source : "Reel Steel: Alice Englert" by Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. January 7, 2013.
“I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.”
“I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The best kind of performance review is no performance review”
“A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.”

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