Subject: Entertainment » Music (Page 7)

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

(1879 – 1961) English conductor
Entertainment Music

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
Entertainment Music

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
Entertainment Music

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
Entertainment Music

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

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist
Entertainment Intelligence Memory Misspokements Music

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
Entertainment Music People

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

(1920 – 2001) Soviet-born violinist & conductor
Entertainment Music

Elvis may have been the king of rock 'n' roll, but I am the queen.

Richard Penniman (1932 – ) American singer & pianist
Entertainment Music People Self

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist
Entertainment Insults Music

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

(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist
Entertainment Music

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
Entertainment Music People

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

(1879 – 1961) English conductor
Entertainment Music

I have no problem not listening to The Temptations.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
Entertainment Music

All music is folk music; I ain’t never heard no horse sing a song.

(1901 – 1971) American jazz trumpeter and singer
Entertainment Music

Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist
Entertainment Misspokements Music

A composer for one right hand.

(1813 – 1883) German composer, conductor, theatre director & essayist
Entertainment Insults Music

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
Communication Entertainment Language Music Understanding

Play us a medley of your hit.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor
Entertainment Insults Music

Piano: A parlor utensil for subduing the impertinent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Definitions Entertainment Music Things

It's bad when they don't perform your operas – but when they do, it's far worse.

(1835 – 1921) French Late-Romantic composer, conductor & pianist
Entertainment Insults Music Situations

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

Entertainment Music Reviews/Criticism