When asked whether he minded if someone smoked in a non-smoking compartment. Certainly not if you don't object if I'm sick.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

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

I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.

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

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

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.