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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.
Thomas Beecham
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Thomas Beecham
Age: 81 †
Born: 1879
Born: April 29
Died: 1961
Died: March 8
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Sir Thomas Beecham
2nd Baronet
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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
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Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.
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At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.
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The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.
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In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.
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The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.
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Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.
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Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.
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If she is attractive, I can't perform with her if she is not, then I won't.
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The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.
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I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
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