Neville Marriner Quotes

#1. Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

Neville Marriner

#2. Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

Robert Fitzgerald

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

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#5. Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!

John A. Macdonald

#6. I am truly honored because I know, obviously, what Bob meant to the Twins. I always told myself, when I put a uniform on for the first time in 1998, that I'm going to give everything I have.

Mike Redmond

#7. 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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#8. Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#11. , I press my lips against his firmly. He never moves, never asks for anything more. I want to inhale his exhale and pretend for just a moment more, but no. A moment is all I'll let myself have.

Kata Cuic

#12. So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

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

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#14. Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

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#15. 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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#16. As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

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#17. I'll give you some credit," he said with a sneer. "You don't look like a prostitute."
Austin shrugged. "I don't usually wear the fishnets and garish makeup on my day off.

Lauren Gallagher

#18. 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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#19. He holds his hand out for me to see it like he's cradling something delicate or breakable, an egg or like, his heart.

Eda J. Vor

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

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#21. If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

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#22. One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.

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#23. I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.

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#24. There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

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#25. If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

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

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#27. Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

Mark Hoppus

#28. You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

Dick Gregory

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

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#30. So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

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#31. So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.

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

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