Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.
Simon RattleRead
My only interest is in sharing great music with more and more people.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire to connect people through the joy of music.
Simon Rattle emphasizes the importance of music not just as an art form, but as a means of bringing people together. His focus is on the communal experience created through sharing music, highlighting its power to transcend boundaries and foster connections among diverse audiences.
In practice
At a community concert, I shared Simon Rattle's view by stating, 'My only interest is in sharing great music with more and more people.'
Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.
What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset.
I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.
I believe if you're not completely in love with what you're doing, you'd better find another profession.
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.
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little more propriety be reproached as a plagiary, than the architect can be censured as a mean copier of Angelo or Wren, because he digs his marble out of the same quarry, squares his stones by the same art, and unites them in columns of the same orders.
I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.
The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?
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