Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.
A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
"Have you heard any Stockhausen?" Beecham was asked. "No, but I believe I have stepped in some."
Magical music never leaves the memory.
A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me."
I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.