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- Mr Cardus's phrasing and diction are music itself, and his comments so graphic that one lives and moves for the time being in the scenes and situations associated with the music, and the composer becomes a living presence. (en)
- Flight was his secret, flight and the curving line, now higher, now lower, tempting, inimical; every ball like every other ball, yet somehow unlike; each over in collusion with the others, part of a plot. Every ball a decoy, a spy sent out to get the lie of the land; some balls simple, some complex, some easy, some difficult; and one of them—ah, which?—the master ball. (en)
- There was nothing pitiable in him, nothing inviting sympathy in this wreck of a physique. He was wrapped in a monk-like gown, and his face was strong and disdainful, every line on it graven by intrepid living. (en)
- : The opera in fact is the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God. (en)
- It was his eager observing of all [the] qualities inherent in music's art and artfulness – and his ability to write about them with such elegance, irony and seriousness – which made Neville Cardus so special (en)
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