“One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communicat...” — Simon Rattle 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.”

“'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.”

“I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.”

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”

“Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.”