I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

"Have you heard any Stockhausen?" Beecham was asked. "No, but I believe I have stepped in some."

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

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.

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Time is thought.

Successful couples learn the secret of fighting for their relationship rather than against one another.

My blood in his veins." ~Jace

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.

If everybody's thinking the same thing, then nobody's thinking.

There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.