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

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.

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.

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

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.

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