#mo

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

— Neville Marriner

#his #mention #mozart #music #opera

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

— Neville Marriner

#even #instruments #late #more #most

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

— Neville Marriner

#being #friendly #gone #had #leap

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

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#captures #emotions #me #music #special

If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#away #based #conceptual #criteria #down

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. ↗

— Diana Ross

#closed #comes #fingers #grains #hand

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point? ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#cannot #good #i #like #make

I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#actually #artists #company #i #invested

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#audiences #beyond #clear #community #had