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

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.

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.

Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.

Love is our religion. Love is our light. It is the only thing that gives us any hope.

Synergy between thoughts and feelings reads the universe like an opened book.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.

Yeah, there has been alot of changes in my life since I started glee...I bought a new sweater.

It seems like everywhere I go I can't get real love.

Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.