The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.


Quoted in The Musical Times, February 1909; cited from Percy A. Scholes The Mirror of Music, 1844-1944 (London: Novello, 1947) vol. 1, p. 267.

Arthur Sullivan Quotes

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the...

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the...

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the...

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the...