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 Copy Share Image
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking. — Neville Marriner Copy Share
But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them. — Neville Marriner Copy Share
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it. — Neville Marriner Copy Share
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. — Neville Marriner Copy Share
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. — Neville Marriner Copy Share
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… — Neville Marriner Copy Share
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. — Neville Marriner Copy Share
So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well. — Neville Marriner Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Neville Marriner Copy Share
So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional. — Neville Marriner Copy Share
