Neville Marriner Quotes

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

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• Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Criticism

• I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • World
  • Together
  • Democracy

• Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Change
  • Best

• I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Responsible
  • Debate
  • Press

• When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • May
  • Peace

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Television

• I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Different
  • Travel

• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • Know
  • Perfection

• If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Star

• Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

  

  Karl Rove
  • Eye
  • See
  • Budget

• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

  Adam Driver
  • More
  • I Can
  • Strengths

• I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Find
  • Jazz
  • Cartooning

• Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Side
  • Angels
  • Too

• It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Child

• If I had an unlimited budget, I would really be probing that question of life because we know what the questions are, and we know what the destinations are.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Life
  • Question

• So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Policy
  • Modern politics
  • Personal attacks

• The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the people whose music I suit are by and large people that I'm a fan of.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Music

• When I finished 'Cocktail,' it took me a very long time to get out of Veronica's mindspace, behaviour, and zone. I had to reconnect with who I am. It is a similar story with 'Bajirao Mastani.' Some films demand that.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Time
  • Long

• Democratic institutions are necessary and very important, and if I remained at the head of government, it could be an obstacle to democratic practice. Also, if I were to remain, then I would have to join one of the parties. If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Work
  • Important
  • Party

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

  

  Neville Marriner