Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

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.

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.And live your life.

You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

I don't remember any blue poodles.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

To harm another is to harm oneself

I don't see music as working.