16 Quotes by Humphrey Lyttelton

Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white." OK who's going to identify that?

Coincidence is a wonderful thing.

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had… his photocopier…

Now it’s time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here’s the first one: “Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white.” OK who’s going to identify that?

For me, it’s a bigger challenge, it’s much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you’ve got to see to it that you don’t torpedo any of his punch lines.

Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That’s been going for 33 years or something.

Outside it was startlingly cold, clear, moonless night. The stars shimmered overhead like splinters of exploded champagne bottles.