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• The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
• There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on…
• Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
• Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
• When asked whether he minded if someone smoked in a non-smoking compartment. Certainly not if you don't object if I'm sick.
• Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.
• The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
• A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

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