Neville Marriner Quotes

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

A symphony is no joke.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music.

Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

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

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.

Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.