1.
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
2.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
Neville Marriner
3.
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
4.
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
Neville Marriner
5.
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
Neville Marriner
6.
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
Neville Marriner
7.
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
Neville Marriner
8.
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
Neville Marriner
9.
There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
Neville Marriner
10.
We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.
Neville Marriner
11.
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
Neville Marriner
12.
If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
Neville Marriner
13.
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
Neville Marriner
14.
Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.
Neville Marriner
15.
I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.
Neville Marriner
