Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Walter Legge

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English producer Walter Legge.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Walter Legge

Harry Walter Legge was an English classical music record producer, most especially associated with EMI. His recordings include many sets later regarded as classics and reissued by EMI as "Great Recordings of the Century". He worked in the recording industry from 1927, combining this with the post of junior music critic of The Manchester Guardian. He was assistant to Sir Thomas Beecham at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and in World War II played a role in bringing music to the armed forces and civilians.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. What is necessary are people like Karajan, [fellow recording producer John] Culshaw and me; we know not only how to achieve the best artistic results but how to attract the public and carry out the whole operation with carefully chosen collaborators. Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida. — © Walter Legge
I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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