If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

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.

Some people sit at life’ banquet table while others serve them

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked.It was love, and it was divine.

Procrastination and excuses really have the energy to make your picture small and blurred if you offer them that image!

I am Not The Best, But I Have The Potential To Be Something Great.

Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning.

If you wish to marry well, inquire well.

Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti. (Follow your road and let the people say).

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.

Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.