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


Sir Thomas Beecham

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Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
THOMAS BEECHAM I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching h...
SUSAN HILL Now, very few composers write for themselves.
JENNIFER HIGDON I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
OTIS RUSH More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers...
ERIC HOFFER I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't ...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Ma...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all yo...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls...
J.K. ROWLING Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to ...
A. R. RAHMAN I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.
MITCH HEDBERG No, thanks. If I start wearing heels, boys will whistle at me when I walk by.
DIA REEVES were these two rebellious band members, and we would write nice little tunes, but sentimental stuff.
MICK JAGGER If you don't like dancing to other people's tunes, write your own songs.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Why should the devil have all the good tunes?
ROWLAND HILL Why should the devil have all the good tunes?.
ROWLAND HILL I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
MATT CAMERON I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in...
DAVID EDDINGS When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The cycles of humankind – sheep in control of sheep – were part of an ingenious process taught t...
ROBERT NEIL FLIEISCHER Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical i...
DAVID DEL TREDICI Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthet...
BILL CONTI I thought the boys were magnificent, ... They come to compete, they come to play from the first whis...
COLIN CLARKE [But] we need today divine composers, ... We need today someone who can write the score to unite the...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones-when t...
CHARLES IVES Sir, if you are as powerful as I feel that you are, and as inclined toward us as you seem to be, end...
GEORGE SAUNDERS Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Th...
THOMAS FULLER I think what's going to happen is that some of the big boys will see that he can write and draw his ...
BRIAN ERNST The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will bec...
ED SHEERAN Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
THOMAS BEECHAM Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Ma...
THOMAS BEECHAM The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.
THOMAS BEECHAM Most of them sound like they live on seaweed.
THOMAS BEECHAM All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
THOMAS BEECHAM Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.
THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
THOMAS BEECHAM I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The ...
GEORGE HARRISON I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers requir...
ANTONIO DAMASIO He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes.
ROWLAND HILL No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.
JACK LONDON There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and...
BILL CONTI It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.
SIMON RATTLE When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the ...
FRANCOISE HARDY Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.
SUZANNE COLLINS Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also record...
ERIC WHITACRE Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of ...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the...
THOMAS S. MONSON I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for t...
MOSE ALLISON You know when 1 in 2 marriages ends in divorce, 1 in 42 boys have Autism, and safety complaints from...
STEVEN MAGEE I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great Ame...
CHARLIE HADEN Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, f...
MOSE ALLISON Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below?
CHARLES LAMB We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth...
RUSH D. HOLT, JR. The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
REBECCA SOLNIT Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with ...
TERRY TEACHOUT A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
JUVENAL A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
JUVENAL Diets are a fool's errand.
EVANGELINE LILLY Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
KARL KRAUS Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays
KARL KRAUS I think that live shows are more important for singers than composers, because composers still get a...
ARMAAN MALIK We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thou...
BRIAN ENO Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
GEORGE HERBERT I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as comme...
ROY WOOD We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern E...
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL Sir D is getting better and better each week. If he keeps improving, we should be good.
ERIC SMITH Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them th...
LOUISE TALMA People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; beca...
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN The statues of archdukes or composers presided with pensive nonchalance.
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding th...
BILL O'REILLY There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding th...
BILL O'REILLY I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can wr...
A. J. LIEBLING They should be shot. [on the Backstreet Boys ]
NOEL GALLAGHER Kids went to school by that whistle,
DON EDWARDS The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except...
MEINDERT DEJONG I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.
MALCOLM X Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
EZRA STILES I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Midd...
DAVID EDDINGS Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ...
BRIAN GREENE Thomas lived a life we can all aspire to and learn from.
MIKE SINGLETARY I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music o...
GLENN GOULD I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
PAUL HAGGIS I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer shoul...
JOHN BOYNE Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on, And turn again.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'd say that most of the music I write includes me as a performer in some way, and this is not neces...
DANIEL TRUEMAN GS There's only so much you can do when you're using loaner equipment from the universities.
EVAN THOMAS I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the mid...
JOSEPH ADDISON Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
YUNUS EMRE Zffff...what was that, sir? That was your life. Can I get another one? No, sorry.
BASIL FAWLTY Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can ...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.
SIR EDWARD HOBY All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
SIR HUGH WALPOLE Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
SIR WILLIAM JONES When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must b...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great bo...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...
SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
SIR RICHARD STEELE