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

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

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

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.

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

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.