Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

- Neville Marriner

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

- Neville Marriner

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

- Neville Marriner

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

- Neville Marriner

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

- Neville Marriner

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

- Neville Marriner

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

- Neville Marriner

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

- Neville Marriner

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?

- Neville Marriner