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

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

What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.

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 the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.

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."

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.