Top 22 Quotes by Neville Marriner

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

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.

Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

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

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.

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

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