“It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.” — Simon Rattle Quote

“It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.”

“We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music.”

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

“I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.”

“I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.”

“It's a funny thing... I started touring at nine or ten years old, and for the first ten, fifteen, almost twenty years of your career, you're the youngest guy on stage and the youngest guy in the room.”