Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

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

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

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

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.