Max Reger Quotes

Quoted in Nicholas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1953). Cassell's Humorous Quotations suggests that an earlier version of this jab appeared in a letter by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1785, but no such anecdote is found in the book said to be the source.
Max Reger, Christopher Anderson (2006). “Selected Writings of Max Reger”, p.82, Taylor & Francis