Thomas Beecham Quotes - Page 2

The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.

The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started

If she is attractive, I can't perform with her; if she is not, then I won't.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.

In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

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.

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

No woman is worth the loss of a night's sleep.

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.