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• A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. -- Sir Thomas Beecham
• Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
  -- Sir Thomas Beecham...
• Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. -- Sir Thomas Beecham
• The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud. -- Sir Thomas Beecham
• I was the first woman to burn mt bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
• Africa is God's country, and he can have it. Well, sir, we left New York drunk and early on the morning of February 2.
  After fifteen days on the water and six on the boat, we finally arrived on the shores of Africa....
• hey [the Indians] are not running but are coming on.
  -- note sent from Lt. Col Custer to other officers -- of the 7th Regiment at the Little Bigho...
• Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
  -- Sir Edward Coke (1549-1634) -- Translation of lines quoted by Coke...
• She really wasn't my type -- a hard-looking, untalented reporter for the local cat-box line
  but the first second that that third-rate representative of the fourth estate cracked open a new fifth of old Scotch, my sixth sense said seventh heaven was as close as an eighth note from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, so, nervous as a tenth grader drowning in eleventh-hour cramming for a physics exam, I swept her into my longing arms, and while humming The Twelfth of Never, I got lucky on Friday the thirteenth....