If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

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

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.