Subject: Entertainment » Music (Page 4)

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands – and all you can do is scratch it.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

Classical Jazz: Rock of ages.

Australia's gift to insomniacs; it's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

(1947 – 1979) American singer

Director: The one who always faces the music.

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

(1888 – 1963) Spanish writer & dramatist

What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter

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

(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist

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

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

Tonight I’m going to listen with my ears.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

stand-up comedian, actor, writer & producer

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

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

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

(1770 – 1827) German composer & pianist

Elwood: Eh… what kind of music do you usually have here?

Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western.

(1941 – ) American actress

Anonymous: Is Ringo the best drummer in the world?

Lennon: He’s not even the best drummer in the band.

(1940 – 1980) English rock musician, singer & songwriter

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

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

(1911 – 2010) American bandleader

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

Jazz Musician: A juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks; there you are, keeping the beat, the next thing you know, your bass player turns into a can of soup.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian