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

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.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

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

We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

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