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Top 40 Thomas Beecham Quotes (2024 Update)

Thomas Beecham Quote: “The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “Magical music never leaves the memory.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “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.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “Elgar’s first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “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.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it’s not going to achieve immortality.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “The sound of a harpsichord – two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “They are quite hopeless – drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “It is quite untrue that British people don’t appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “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 Quote: “Beethoven’s last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “Most people really don’t like music – they just like the way it sounds.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “A soprano in Massenet’s Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, “because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon.” “Madam, you must be profoundly in error,” said Sir Thomas, “No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me.””
Thomas Beecham Quote: “What can you do with it? It’s like a lot of yaks jumping about.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “Movie music is noise. It’s even more painful than my sciatica.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “As you’ll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “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.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “No woman is worth the loss of a night’s sleep.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “When asked whether he minded if someone smoked in a non-smoking compartment. Certainly not if you don’t object if I’m sick.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “If she is attractive, I can’t perform with her; if she is not, then I won’t.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.”
Thomas Beecham Quote: “Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.”
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