Symphonies Require Quotes by Neville Marriner

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

— Neville Marriner

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

— Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

— Neville Marriner

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

— Neville Marriner

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

— Neville Marriner

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

— Neville Marriner

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

— Neville Marriner

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

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

— Neville Marriner

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

— Neville Marriner

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

— Neville Marriner

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