Quote #7
If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it.
More from Thomas Beecham
- The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.
- The musical equivalent of St. Pancras Station
- I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it.
- A city life for me!
- A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
- No composer has written as much as 100 bars of worthwhile music since 1925.
- Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.
- It is said that in one rehearsal he was unsatisfied with the performance of a female cello soloist, and so said to her 'Madam, you have bet…