If she is attractive, I can't perform with her; if she is not, then I won't.

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

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

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

When asked whether he minded if someone smoked in a non-smoking compartment. Certainly not if you don't object if I'm sick.

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 British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.