The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.
The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.
In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.
Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.
Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.
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.