Simon Rattle
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Always the journey, never the destination. SIMON RATTLE Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young. SIMON RATTLE If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then t... SIMON RATTLE What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset. SIMON RATTLE Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community. SIMON RATTLE If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble. SIMON RATTLE Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one pro... SIMON RATTLE As a nation, we English tend to be self-deprecating, looking down on ourselves. We're insular bu... SIMON RATTLE In England, unless I am mistaken, I think some of the politicians who love classical music and opera... SIMON RATTLE I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a cond... SIMON RATTLE I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony. SIMON RATTLE I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it. SIMON RATTLE It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks. SIMON RATTLE Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires. SIMON RATTLE There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in r... SIMON RATTLE There is a mysterious way in which orchestras keep a sense of their history and what they've don... SIMON RATTLE I am old enough to remember the enormous fight over Tate Modern. It is such a part of our cultural l... SIMON RATTLE The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. ... SIMON RATTLE Everybody who witnessed the premiere of the dance was deeply moved by the experience and many of the... SIMON RATTLE SIMON SINEK The majority of my work is about preparation. TARYN SIMON I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles intere... TARYN SIMON My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support. TARYN SIMON In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered ... TARYN SIMON I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answe... TARYN SIMON With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a... SAM SIMON I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think. SAM SIMON I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do t... SAM SIMON 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thoug... SAM SIMON I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work. SAM SIMON One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, ... SAM SIMON The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken ... SAM SIMON Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with. SAM SIMON I don't believe in miracles. SAM SIMON I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their We... SAM SIMON A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl.... SAM SIMON I want to do whatever I can to survive. SAM SIMON I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begr... SAM SIMON Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate chang... SAM SIMON The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's fun... SAM SIMON There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bi... SAM SIMON When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use. SAM SIMON Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan. SAM SIMON Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused anim... SAM SIMON SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would hav... SIMON COWELL SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON HOGGART SIMON HOGGART He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have sai... SIMON CALLOW HERBERT SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SINEK I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand. SIMON REUBEN I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of read... MARGE SIMON SIMON HOGGART SIMON HOGGART SIMON MAINWARING Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever w... SIMON COWELL What do we do after? Build a transfer station? Direct haul? And what will the form be? Contract with... ALAN SIMON If we fill to capacity we don't have to do a tax or bond to cover the rest. ALAN SIMON We're taking in less [household] trash and have more capacity. And capacity equals money. ALAN SIMON It's pretty much a lull in the action. We're looking forward to the next few years. ALAN SIMON SIMON MAINWARING As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywoo... SIMON BEAUFOY Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big tro... SIMON COWELL Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with. SIMON TRAVAGLIA I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - i... SIMON COWELL I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual ... SIMON COWELL I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I sho... SIMON BIRD SIMON HOGGART SIMON SINEK SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING The golden age is before us, not behind us. ST. SIMON NEIL SIMON Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow. SIMON DACH SIMON SINEK There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it... SIMON GREENLEAF In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our reli... SIMON GREENLEAF SIMON MORDEN SIMON MASHALLA SIMON SINEK TED SIMON SIMON HOGGART NEIL SIMON SIMON HOGGART TED SIMON JOHN SIMON PAUL SIMON SIMON SCHAMA JOHN SIMON HERBERT SIMON SIMON WIESENTHAL NEIL SIMON SIMON FORMAN SIMON FORMAN ELLEN SIMON Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while... SIMON FOWLER PAUL SIMON SIMON CAMERON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING DAVID SIMON SIMON HOGGART DAVID SIMON DAVID SIMON HERBERT SIMON SIMON SINEK For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom ... SIMON COWELL The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to... SIMON SPURR It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pede... SIMON REX American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. SIMON PEGG There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't ev... SIMON PEGG SIMON SINEK SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SCHAMA SIMON NEWCOMB SIMON SINEK CARLY SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SINEK SIMON HELBERG SIMON NEWCOMB CARLY SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING HERBERT SIMON JOHN SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON SIMON SINEK SIMON NEWCOMB SIMON KUZNETS SIMON NEWCOMB If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. SIMON COWELL My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face. SIMON COWELL When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables... SIMON COWELL I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g... SIMON COWELL My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.' SIMON COWELL I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical,... SIMON COWELL The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed a... SIMON COWELL I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. SIMON COWELL I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do i... SIMON COWELL You are a saucy little thing aren't you? SIMON COWELL Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. SIMON COWELL I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of,... SIMON COWELL The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love. SIMON COWELL I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can&#... SIMON COWELL I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly... SIMON COWELL You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. SIMON COWELL Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people. SIMON COWELL You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much. SIMON COWELL Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator. SIMON COWELL I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looki... SIMON COWELL
I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a ho... 
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting femal... 
Comfort has been the very reason why so many people never lived their real and true destiny though t... 
People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and... 
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m... 
There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because every... 
Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but ... 
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It ha... 
American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively f... 
There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality o... 
For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers t... 
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why s... 
Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't sh... 
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recen... 
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching ... 
Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn't think I had a... 
Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people... 
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that ... 
I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first mart... 
[Ellis, who lives in France, recorded some of the violin loops at his house.] It was very different ... 
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Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace b... 
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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is sayin... 
People who speak through words very few hear them but people who speak from their heart many feel th... 
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Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem. 
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Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad. 
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There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice. 
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People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. 
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Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. 
People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others d... 
Oga. Watu hawaogi ndiyo maana wachafu. Kuoga ni lazima kutumia maji. Ukitaka kuoga neno, tumia maji;... 
There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhe... 
To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects an... 
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. 
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. 
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct ... 
Some years ago, writing about stage adaptations of fiction, I noted: 
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It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuis... 
Better your room than your company. 
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. 
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. 
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. 
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You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. 
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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. 