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• A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. -- Sir Thomas Beecham
• Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
  -- Sir Thomas Beecham...
• Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. -- Sir Thomas Beecham
• In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.
  -- Sir Thomas Beecham, on Bruckner's 7th symphony...
• As long as the music's loud enough, we won't hear the world falling apart.
• A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it. BEECHAM
• The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. -- Sir Thomas Browne
• Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel.
  Handel was half German, half Italian and half English....
• Some words are like rays of sunshine, others like barbed arrows or the bite of a serpent.
  And if hard words cut so deep, how much pleasure can kind ones give? -- Sir John Lubbock...