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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.
• A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
• 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.
• I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
• It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it…
• Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.
• Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.
• The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

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