Subject: Entertainment » Music (Page 4)

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

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

It's a bunch of guys all playing different songs at the same time.

(1968 – ) American actor & comedian

Every Death Cab for Cutie song is the perfect soundtrack to me waiting for it to be over.

comedian

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

The only reason Woodstock was necessary is because they didn't have iTunes.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

I only know two tunes: one of them is “Yankee Doodle” and the other isn’t.

(1822 – 1885) 18th U.S. president & army general

The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished learning them as when you start.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

(1889 – 1974) American intellectual, writer, reporter & political commentator

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

(1928 – 2008) American singer, songwriter & rock and roll pioneer

Director: The one who always faces the music.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

Harpist: A plucky musician.

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music.

(1921 – 2009) British composer, pianist and radio & television presenter

The problem with women in an orchestra is that if they’re attractive it will upset my players and if they’re not it will upset me.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

I know two kinds of audiences only – one coughing, and one not coughing.

(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist

Accordian: An instrument inharmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Liking both Marvin Gaye and Art Garfunkel is like supporting both the Israelis and the Palestinians.

(1966 – ) American film actor, producer & screenwriter

Tonight I’m going to listen with my ears.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

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

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

(1916 – 1994) American singer

I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand.

(1892 – 1965) English physicist