Neville Marriner Quotes

It's important to tour with bands that you get along with.

Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it great for a while.

When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

I'm never happier than when I'm part of an ensemble. The rhythm of working in a group and the dynamic of each individual relationship within that group coming together is such a special thing.

Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.

I love bands that can collaborate, and I feel like the Rolling Stones wouldn't be nearly as great as they are if it wasn't for them having a real group.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'

There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.

I think you're very lucky to find somebody you can coexist with without straying or going mad or being angry. That's whether you're Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, or Tim and June from down the road.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

I'm sure they can grin and bear it for a week. After all it's for world peace.

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

I'm a social person, and I'm used to working as a band member. I like that. I like being a part of a family onstage and on the road.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does, for awhile, become family.

You have to be patient in the Premier League.

Don't get me wrong, the fans are great for us. But the fans, and the players, all of us together have to realise we have to be patient.

I write songs, but the guys play on them, they have opinions on them, and we tour together and spend all our time together.

I've always gotten along pretty well with people.

Usually when you put five girls together, especially when they've been solo artists, it doesn't turn out very well.

When I wasn't playing, the most important thing was to stay patient.

I think 'understanding' and 'acceptance' are the most important words.