"It is not so easy to cite instances of writers who fail because, being critics, they have neither literary skill nor musical culture. A man cannot become an expert in criticism without practicing on art of some kind; and if that art is not music, then he naturally confines himself to the art he is accustomed to handle, writing about it if he has the necessary literary faculty, and if not, teaching it." (George Bernard Shaw, How To Become A Musical Critic, The Scottish Musical Monthly, December 1894, reprinted by Da Capo, 1978)
"I could make deaf stockbrokers read my two pages on music." (same source)
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