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 Image
Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it. — 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 Image
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 Image
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
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 Image
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
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 Image
