Neville Marriner Quotes

• I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

  Neville Marriner

  Regret, Wish, Conducting

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• I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

  Neville Marriner

  Ideas, People, New Ideas

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• Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

  Neville Marriner

  Years, Avant Garde, Today

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• If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

  Neville Marriner

  Art, Giving, British

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• So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

  Neville Marriner

  Two, Culture, Separation

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• Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

  Neville Marriner

  Symphony, Piano, Opera

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• Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.

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  Player, Style, Taste

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• Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

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  Symphony, Instruments, Late

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• The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

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  Awful, Becoming, Conductor

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• As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

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  Use, Language, Certain

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• We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

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  Pie, People, Want

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• If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

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  Romantic, Musician, Needs

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• There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

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  Sound, Singers, Manipulation

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• Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

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  Capacity, Halls

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• I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

  Neville Marriner

  Thinking, Quality, Instance

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