Subject: Entertainment » Music (Page 2)

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

American author

Fortissimo at last!

(1860 – 1911) Austrian composer

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

Let me tell you about Jack's singing voice… it made his violin playing sound good.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more, but how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

(1909 – 2000) Danish-born comedian & pianist

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

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

These go to 11.

(1948 – ) English-American screenwriter, musician, director & actor

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

It's not music, it's a disease.

(1911 – 2010) American bandleader

I don’t like my music, but what is my opinion against that of millions of others.

(1904 – 1988) Austrian-American composer

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do; and for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.’

(1929 – ) American comedian & comic actor

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

I practice when I’m loaded.

(1925 – 1985) American jazz saxophonist

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

(1852 – 1933) author, educator & clergyman

Why do you always insist on playing while I’m trying to conduct?

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn’t have to go to an osteopath, then there’s something wrong.

(1955 – ) English conductor

If it wasn't for white people, who would play lead guitar?

(1954 – ) American actress & comedian

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

comedian

In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

(1909 – 2000) Danish-born comedian & pianist

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio; if all the stations are rock ‘n’ roll, there’s a good chance the transmission is shot.

(1940 – ) American radio disc jockey