You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.

Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.

And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that.