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

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.

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

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

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

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

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