"So in one leap we had gone from……" — Neville Marriner
"So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional."
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22 Quotes by Neville Marriner
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- Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
- Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.
- As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
- There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
- I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.
- If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
- Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30…
- So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
- We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.
- I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
- Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
- Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.