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

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

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

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

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

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

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.

One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

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

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

Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

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

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

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

This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

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

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

I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

God gave us two ears and one mouth, so we can hear twice as much as we say.

'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

If you help them the crew create good memories theyll forget all the bad stuff

People come up to me and say somebody in their family has cancer, and we appreciate what you do, and we appreciate your fight, and don't give up, we love your attitude.

I believe we're the party of small business.

The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.

A biography is never a biography of one person of course but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.

We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.

It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to back in the day. Now you're paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there's some kind of connection.

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its un-Earthly vistas are spectral and spectacular.

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.

Sincere wishes come true.

I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.