The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.
The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started
The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.