Thomas Beecham Quotations

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

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

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

No woman is worth the loss of a night's sleep.

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.

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

The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.