#at

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ↗

— Don Marquis

#hands #happiness #himself #how #into

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ↗

— Don Marquis

#blood #boast #descendants #family #finish

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. ↗

— Don Marquis

#epigram #like #newspaper #platitude #stroke

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

— Neville Marriner

#between #cultures #found #i #musically

I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#frustrated #i #i think #our #routine

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

#apart #entirely #expansive #great #great virtues

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television? ↗

— Jason Marsden

#get #lot #television #want #watching

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

— Neville Marriner

#even #instruments #late #more #most

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

— Neville Marriner

#awful #awful thing #become #becoming #conductor

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

— Neville Marriner

#english #find #manipulate #quite #singers