Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.
Simon RattleRead
We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.
Interpretation
Music should be accessible to everyone, regardless of their typical preferences.
This quote by Simon Rattle emphasizes the importance of making music, specifically classical music, accessible to all individuals, including those who may not typically engage with this genre. It speaks to the notion of inclusivity in the arts and the role of musicians and artists in reaching diverse audiences to enrich their cultural experiences.
In practice
During a community event, I shared a quote about music's accessibility to inspire attendees to explore different genres.
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.
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.
We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music.
There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.
From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh
There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.
I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
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