Simon McBurney Music Quotations

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.

My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.