"Nature never intended the fair sex to become players of wind instruments. In the first place they are not strong enough to play them as well as men, they lack the lip and lung power to hold notes, which deficiency makes them always play out of tune... Another point against them is that women cannot possibly play wind instruments and look pretty, and why should they spoil their good looks?"

"Woman, lovely woman, is always to be admired, except when she is playing in an orchestra. She is certainly not in her sphere, and any leader will find this out after he has had a few quarrels and instances of feminine disagreements."

"Woman, emotional by temperament, cannot outwardly express herself through music."

"One discordant musician might not be noticed in an orchestra, but if you have several women members, the playing verges on the excruciating."

"Great actresses who have never been great dramatists may express emotions because they express their own natures; but to treat emotions as if they were mathematics, to bind and measure and limit them within the rigid laws of harmony and counterpoint is a cold-blooded operation, possible only to the sterner and more obdurate nature of man."