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