Quotes by Thomas Beecham

Thomas Beecham

“Have you heard any Stockhausen?” Beecham was asked. “No, but I believe I have stepped in some.”

Belief

Believe

Heard

A soprano in Massenet’s Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, “because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon.” “Madam, you must be profoundly in error,” said Sir Thomas, “No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me.”

Errors

Soon Enough

Stars

Brass bands are all very well in their place – outdoors and several miles away.

Brass Bands

Funny

Music

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

Boys

Tunes

Writing

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Magic

Memories

Music

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

Opinion

Poor

World

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

Achieve

Immortality

Opera

If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.

Age

Population

Years

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

Attractive

I Can

Ifs

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

Miscarriage

Musical

Pregnancy

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Age

Attractive

Bagpipes

Belief

Believe

Bird

Boys

Brass Bands

Cages

Conscious

Depressing

Doleful

Enough

Errors

Finished

Function

Funny

Giving

Heard

Hopeless

I Can

Ifs

Immortality

Love

Magic

Memories

Mind

Miscarriage

Music

Musical

Opera

Opinion

Poor

Population

Pregnancy

Protestants

Release

Scratches

Sex

Skeletons

Sleep

Soon Enough

Sound

Stars

Too Much

Tunes

Two

Women

World

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Quotes by Thomas Beecham

Thomas Beecham

“Have you heard any Stockhausen?” Beecham was asked. “No, but I believe I have stepped in some.”

A soprano in Massenet’s Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, “because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon.” “Madam, you must be profoundly in error,” said Sir Thomas, “No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me.”

Brass bands are all very well in their place – outdoors and several miles away.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

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

If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.

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.

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