"Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments,……" — Neville Marriner
"Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more."
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Neville Marriner
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22 Quotes by Neville Marriner
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Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.
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As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
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There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
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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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If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
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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…
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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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We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.
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I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
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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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Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
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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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More Beethoven Quotes
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to…
— Jack Black
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven…
— Johannes Brahms
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When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can…
— Dave Brubeck
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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.
— George Carlin
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All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to…
— H. L. Mencken
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You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.
— Deepak Chopra
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Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
— Henry Adams
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