Thomas Beecham quotes
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
I didn't know he'd been knighted. I knew he'd been doctored.
I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it!
Most of them sound like they live on seaweed.
Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.