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

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My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind. . . like Robert Plant.

Thomas Beecham

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

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The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

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Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

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The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

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

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I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.

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