Quote #6

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

More from Thomas Beecham

  1. I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it.
  2. If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it.
  3. A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
  4. The musical equivalent of St. Pancras Station
  5. Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.
  6. A city life for me!
  7. Asked if he had ever conducted any Stockhausen, he said, 'No, but I once trod in some.'
  8. No composer has written as much as 100 bars of worthwhile music since 1925.

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