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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn’t give a damn what goes on in between. (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
Movie music is noise... Even more painful than my sciatica (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
Magical music never leaves the memory (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
A city life for me! (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
It is quite untrue that British people don’t appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
As you’ll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
Movie music is noise. It’s even more painful than my sciatica (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
No composer has written as much as 100 bars of worthwhile music since 1925 (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
No woman is worth the loss of a night’s sleep (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
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 (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
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 (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
Beethoven’s last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
What can you do with it? It’s like a lot of yaks jumping about (Thomas Beecham Quotes)
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