Who said that?

[MrGongGong]

Feed the answer (quietly)

for a long time

[Serial_Apologist]

and (not the same person)

"Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening."

John Stevens?

[Beef Oven!]

I'm still waiting for you to respond to "Happy New Ears" in #3.

Very familiar sounding, but I can't get it.

"I would give anything to have written this."

ibid

[teamsaint]

for a very long time

oh that was the bloke from heaven 17. martin somebody....

[Petrushka]

Who said about conducting: 'You have to be a bit of a bastard to do this job'?

No takers? The unlikely answer is Bernard Haitink.

[Beef Oven!]

No takers? The unlikely answer is Bernard Haitink.

Blimey, that is unlikely.

[Beef Oven!]

oh that was the bloke from heaven 17. martin somebody....

[MrGongGong]

John Stevens?

Good guess but not
John did, however, say
"If you want to change yourself shave your head and buy a new pair of shoes"

This is one of my favourites

"I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune."



(just don't mention the Mendelssohn violin concerto or ............)

[Serial_Apologist]

"Is there such a thing as feminine music? I don't think so. You don't read Shakespeare as a woman or a man, you read him as a human being. I suppose 'masculine' is supposed to mean strong and decisive and 'feminine' weak and charming. But I don't find that necessarily holds true of either sex".

[EdgeleyRob]

"Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes."

[Bryn]

"Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes."

Aa Ron someone or other.

[Serial_Apologist]

"Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes."

Constant Lambert?

[Petrushka]

"Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes."

Beecham?

[EdgeleyRob]

Aa Ron someone or other.

Yep Aaron Copland (plonker)

[MrGongGong]

Aa Ron someone or other.

Here he is with some cows