Simon Rattle Quotes

#1. It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.

Charles Hazlewood

#2. America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

Pierre Salinger

#3. I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

David Ignatow

#4. I can't imagine what my school friends must have thought was going on because I was wandering around in some kind of dream. I felt as though my insides had been taken out which is, I now realize, the right feeling.

Simon Rattle

#5. If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Simon Rattle

#6. Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.

Simon Rattle

#7. When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

Curt Schilling

#8. Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

Annie Lennox

#9. Although they were hardened and seasoned individual fighters - every male baby born in Afghanistan seems to be given an AK before he gets a rattle - they

Simon Chase

#10. They gazed at her with awe, feeling to the full that medieval reverence for someone obviously touched in the head.

Elizabeth Goudge

#11. If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old.

Carew Papritz

#12. You're supposed to be the damsel in distress. We're supposed to save you." She snorted and pulled her hand away. "Times have changed." "But what does that make us? Two dudes in distress? Pathetic.

Jennifer Foehner Wells

#13. I have dirty things on my mind and they all involve Rebecca Radley.

Holly Stone

#14. The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

Benjamin Franklin