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.

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

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

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

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

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.