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Always the journey, never the destination.

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What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset.

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Yes, I was a weird duck, no doubt.

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I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.

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

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I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.

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I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it.

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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.

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My worst and best qualities are rashness: the good part of it is due to youth, which is, of course, why I'm not a great conductor.

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If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Musician

Born: January 19th, 1955

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