We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

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.

Solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot

Time for us began to be measured by moments when we spoke, and moments when we longed to speak again.

How do you imagine Hell, sir Blacksad ? For me, it's a place without music... of complete silence.

The Lord of my life, who calls me to be brave and walk into the unknown, amazing future. I am always awed by the wonder of you.

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.