Subject: Entertainment » Music (Page 5)

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

(1920 – 2001) Soviet-born violinist & conductor

It’s difficult to remember when you haven’t played it before.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

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

The New Kids on the Block lip-syncing – who gives a damn?… that's like finding out the Muppets didn't sing their own music.

comedian, television writer

Real country music is lying on the floor with that bottle of Jack Daniel's by your side 'cause a woman's gone and walked across your heart like a Samoan man in golf shoes.

(1954 – ) American comedian, writer & musician

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

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

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

stand-up comedian, actor, writer & producer

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

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter

I can’t listen to that much Wagner… I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I want to be a diva… like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-Diet-Coke-around.

(1980 – ) American singer

You might be a redneck if… your stereo speakers used to belong to the Moonlight Drive-in Theater.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

Lloyd Webbers music is everywhere… but so is AIDS.

(1931 – 2003) Australian composer

Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director

Generally, he had a good ear; he didn't know the notes that well, but he played in their general vicinity.

(1934 – ) daughter of Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone

Someone came too sooner.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

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

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

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

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

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

(1916 – 1994) American singer

Never look at the trombones; you’ll only encourage them.

(1864 – 1949) German composer