"American economists can't understand the German fear of inflation and the effects of inflation when ..." — Simon Rattle

I think we will find more and more ways in which technology invades our artistic spaces, so music is something you will need more than ever because it is there in time and in space and for that moment only.

It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.

One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.