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

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

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

I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.

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.

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

Magical music never leaves the memory.