Zitat des Tages von Thomas Beecham:
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.
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
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.
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.