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

— Thomas Beecham

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Quoted in Atkins and Newman, Beecham Stories, 1978

More quotes by Thomas Beecham

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

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

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.

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

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

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