It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into the school to date that the quality of music has necessarily declined and deteriorated. And those who do bring a few precepts with them when they come to school are not ready to be used immediately.

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.