Subject: Entertainment » Music (Page 3)

He hasn't just lost the plot, he's lost the whole library!

I like Wagner's music better than any other music; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title – expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

(1917 – 1998) author, critic, animal rights activist

You might be a redneck if… you think 'N Sync is where the dirty dishes go.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music… and of aviation.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter

On a golf course, Jack had the hands of a violinist; that was fair, because as a violinist, Jack had the hands of a golfer.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

You leave white people alone in constant isolation for thousands of years, you know what their musical contribution is going to be?… Riverdance.

(1959 – ) American actor, stand-up comedian & television host

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

(1909 – 2000) Danish-born comedian & pianist

Ladies and gentlemen, I've suffered for my music… now it's your turn.

(1944 – ) English actor, musician & comic writer

The people who gave us golf and called it a game are the same people who gave us bag pipes and called it music.

I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

(1926 – 1984) English comedian

Harp: A piano in the nude.

Get up from that piano; you hurtin' its feelings.

(1885 – 1945) American ragtime pianist, bandleader & composer

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

I liked your opera… I think I will set it to music.

(1770 – 1827) German composer & pianist

I have no problem not listening to The Temptations.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

If love was easy, there would be almost no music.

(1960 – ) American comedian

After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: “Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him.”

(1867 – 1957) Italian conductor