The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

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.

In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.