Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started

The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.

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.

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

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.