Quote #1
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
More from Thomas Beecham
- Asked if he had ever conducted any Stockhausen, he said, 'No, but I once trod in some.'
- Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.
- A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
- I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it.
- The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.
- If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it.
- The musical equivalent of St. Pancras Station
- A city life for me!