That is why I like the bassoon best. The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose. Anyone who can read all the instrument notes at the same time gets to be the conductor. A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
The hardest thing in the world is to start an orchestra, and the next hardest, to stop it. If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk. A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out. Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.