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We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'

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Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.

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If you receive a whole string of bad reviews, you have to say, 'O.K., maybe there's something here we should pay attention to.'

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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.

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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.

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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.

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My only interest is in sharing great music with more and more people.

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Passionate musicians only come from passionate five-year-olds.

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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.

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Conducting 'Tristan' is like floating in amniotic fluid, but having worked on it for three months, I now know why people who go near it go so strange.

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I was a harpsichordist in my teens, and there was a bunch of us in Liverpool who got together every week to play Bach.

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Every orchestra has its own sound.

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

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We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

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Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven as though it was background and a comfort, and I think that is very dangerous.

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Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways, it's a blessing. It makes them cautious.

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'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.

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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.

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As an older dad you can certainly get down on the floor. The problem is can you get up again?

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I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.

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You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.

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I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.

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Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.

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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.

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