Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

In married life, three is company, and two is none.

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't rea…

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music : an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

You have taken far too much trouble over your opera. Here in England that is mere waste of time. What the English like is something that they can beat time to,…

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.