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

Magical music never leaves the memory.

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

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

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

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