Simon Rattle Quotes

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But that's not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. That's the only way to travel.

Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

I love emotional, intense stuff; it's easier to grab onto than just being simple. Being simple and relaxed can be the hardest thing. It can be easier to get your hooks into something big.

I'm never going to be a flat-line guy. My heart is going to be on my sleeve with every shot.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of freedom is no virtue.

When I feel something, I feel it to the ninth power.

I'm a bit of an extremist.

I'm more dramatic than other people are, or I just show it more. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I have a lot of passion.

Music can make you go from sadness to an immense sadness. There is a limit; if you go too far, it becomes schmaltzy.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep.

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.

In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

I've always had a very extreme personality, which gets me into major trouble, I'm always all or nothing, and I don't know the world "balance." I'm desperately trying to learn it because I think as you get older it becomes very important.

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do. It's very hard for me to love a little, have sex a little, to eat a little. I like to do everything, and I like to do it all the way that I want to do it.

You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions.