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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neville Marriner