Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

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.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.