In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist – but I found I had nothing to say.
Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.
I learned to play the piano on my mother’s knee – that was before we got a piano.
I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.
You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
That’s why I’ve never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?
They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
Well, all’s fair in love, war and fooling the critics.
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that’s my reward.
There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
The essence of a general’s job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose. to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That’s because he moved twice.
I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.
The first piano was built long after they didn’t have any at all.
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
Nogle ting er bedre i Sverige end i Danmark. De har bedre naboer.