Neville Marriner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Symphony #Piano #Violin
We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.
-- Neville Marriner

#Pie #People #Want
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
-- Neville Marriner

#Two #Culture #Separation
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 #Today #Avant Garde
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
-- Neville Marriner

#Art #Giving #British
I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.
-- Neville Marriner

#Thinking #Quality #Instance
There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
-- Neville Marriner

#Singers #Sound #Difficult
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
-- Neville Marriner

#Use #Language #Certain
Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.
-- Neville Marriner

#Player #Style #Taste
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
-- Neville Marriner

#Symphony #Instruments
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
-- Neville Marriner

#Becoming #Awful #Conductor
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
-- Neville Marriner

#Capacity #Halls
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
-- Neville Marriner

#Ideas #People

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