Quotes by Neville Marriner

• We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.
• One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
• Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.
• There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
• The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
• Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing.
• So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.
• So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
• So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.
• One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.
• This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.
• Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
• Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
• Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
• Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
• If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
• If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
• I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
• I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.
• But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.
• As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
• I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.