The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.

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.

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.

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

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.