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

No woman is worth the loss of a night's sleep.

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."

The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started

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

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

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.