I can't recall having seen this collection on the List.

   "The English do not like music but love the noise it makes."
   -Sir Thomas Beecham

   "Music is the best means we have of digesting time." -W.H. Auden

   "There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets."
   -Ambrose Bierce

   "Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several
   miles away." -Sir Thomas Beecham

   "Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing
   out of tune." -Anon

   "An oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good." -Bennet Cerf

   "Please write music like Wagner, only louder." -Sam Goldwyn, instructing
   a composer for a movie.

   "People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while
   the music lasts." -Paul Hindemith

   "At the playing of Rossini's 'William Tell Overture (at the Albert
   Hall) an American lady said, 'Back home this is known as The Lone
   Ranger.'" -Peterborough column, The Daily Telegraph

   "Richard Wagner wrote music which is better than it sounds." -Mark
   Twain

   "How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers." -Rossini

John G. Deacon