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

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

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

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

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

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

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