Quotes

There are those who say that if music has mass appeal it can't also be music of great significance or depth. What The Beatles proved once and for all is that this idea is hopelessly and absurdly wrong.

There are very, very few composers in history whose work changed all the music that followed it: Beethoven (Ludwig van Beethoven) was one, Wagner (Richard Wagner) was another. I believe that posterity will add to their select ranks The Beatles.

After Farage [Nigel Farage], Johnson [Boris Johnson] is the most divisive - and outside the shrinking parish of the Tory faithful - most loathed politician in Britain. The idea that he'd 'unite the country' (post-Brexit minus Scotland & N.I.) is off the dial delusion.

Henry Purcell was the finest home-grown composer England produced before Edward Elgar.