65 Quotes by Thomas Beecham

The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

If she is attractive, I can't perform with her; if she is not, then I won't.

In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.

What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.