You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.
If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.
The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.
"Have you heard any Stockhausen?" Beecham was asked. "No, but I believe I have stepped in some. "
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.
Success is not a stop sign.
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.