Thomas Beecham Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• 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

  Music, Player, Upset

• Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Memories, Magic

  1953 Television broadcast,17 Nov.

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

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Mind, Sound

• A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Men, Classical Music

  In H. Proctor-Gregg Beecham Remembered (1976) pt. 2, p. 154

• 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

  Funny, Music, Two

  In Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978) p. 27

• Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Music, Brass Bands

  “Readers recommend: best brass songs” by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2014.

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

  Thomas Beecham

  Love, Funny, Music

  In New York Herald Tribune 9 Mar. 1961

• Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Men, Lasts

• Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Symphony, Firsts

• I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music

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