Subject: Entertainment » Music (Page 8)

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

(1770 – 1827) German composer & pianist

If you're gonna blame teen sex on rock 'n' roll, why don't we just blame incest on country and western?

comedian

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

(1909 – 2000) Danish-born comedian & pianist

I practice when I’m loaded.

(1925 – 1985) American jazz saxophonist

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

Xylophone: Small toy musical instrument often given as gifts to children who show their appreciation by playing the stupid thing constantly, over and over, all day long; see also "drums."

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

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

These go to 11.

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

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

Fiddle: An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.

(1957 – ) English novelist, essayist & screenwriter

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

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

Richard Penniman (1932 – ) American singer & pianist

There is nothing remarkable about it; all one has to do is to hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

(1685 – 1750) German composer & musician

Violinist: A high-strung musician.

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

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

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

(1864 – 1949) German composer

Jack Benny's ability on the violin was legendary; everybody knew he had none.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

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

They want to play the blues so badly… and that's how they play it – badly!

American bluesman