Should Quote by Thomas Beecham Download Open image “Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.” — Thomas Beecham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Should Tunes
Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable. — Anne Bosworth Greene Copy Share Image
Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the… — Jane Krakowski Copy Share Image
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance. — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
It should be a singer's quality to know what a composer wants and sing accordingly. — Jeet Gannguli Copy Share Image
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride. — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
If you're a top 10 guy you should pay a top 10 guy or even a top 5 guy what he deserves, whether it's… — Aljamain Sterling Copy Share Image
There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
