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You don't like Liverpool: you either loathe it or you love it. And I don't know anyone who loathes it and comes from it.

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In my mid-twenties, I was with a conducting career, but I had never been to university and I wanted to. There were things I wanted to study in depth. I also wanted to see if I could survive without music.

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Passionate musicians only come from passionate five-year-olds.

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The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. You have no idea how wonderful an orchestra like the London Symphony Orchestra can sound in a great concert hall.

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As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'

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'Career' is not a musical term.

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'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.

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Conducting 'Tristan' is like floating in amniotic fluid, but having worked on it for three months, I now know why people who go near it go so strange.

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Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven as though it was background and a comfort, and I think that is very dangerous.

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With these big Wagner pieces, if I haven't started three years before, I'm screwed. You need time to look at the piece again and again and again, and then, like some fantastic casserole or spaghetti sauce, put it back in the fridge and let the flavours get together.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Musician

Born: January 19th, 1955

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