Quotes by Neville Marriner - Page 1

I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.
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Frustrated
Routine
Daily
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We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.
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People
Pie
Want
Poking
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Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
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Capacity
Halls
Capacities
Initially
Performed
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If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
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Romantic
Ifs
Musician
Needs
Perform
Musicians
Repertoire
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I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
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Ideas
New Ideas
People
Change People New
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Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.
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Player
Style
Taste
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Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing.
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Taste
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This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.
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Jewish
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There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
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Manipulate
Manipulation
Singers
Sound
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If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
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Art
British
Council
Giving
Arts
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As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
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Certain
Language
Use
Vocal
Languages
Easily
Lend
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So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.
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Friendly
Leap
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Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
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Instruments
Late
Symphony
Beethoven
Require
Romantics
Symphonies
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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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Quality
Instance
Thinking
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But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.
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Bear
Test
Tour
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One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.
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Tune
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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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Awful
Becoming
Conductor
Desirable
Geriatric
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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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Culture
Particular
Separation
Two
Cultures
Musically
Speaking
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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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Chamber
Opera
Piano
Sacred
Symphony
Violin
Mention
Mozart
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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 years from now.
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Avant Garde
Continuum
Today
Years
Composers
Standard
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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 regrets. Is that bad?
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Conducting
Regret
Wish
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One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
Neville Marriner / Conductor
Performing
Pleasure
Jewish
Apart
Music Great New
Entirely
Expansive
Virtues
Opened
Repertoire
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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.
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Jewish
Direction
Pointed
Repertoire
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