Subject: Entertainment » Music

U2’s lawyers work pro bono.

Jewish-American stand-up comedian & writer
Entertainment Lawyers Music

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

(1928 – 2008) American singer, songwriter & rock and roll pioneer
Entertainment Music Situations

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

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music.

(1921 – 2009) British composer, pianist and radio & television presenter
Age Entertainment Music

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
Dance Entertainment Intelligence Music

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

comedian
Entertainment Music

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

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist
Entertainment Food/Drink Music

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be… it is what it used to be; that is what's wrong with it.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Entertainment Music Reviews/Criticism

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
Entertainment Music

Fiddler: A violinist before he becomes the virtuoso.

Definitions Entertainment Music

Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light. What so proudly we hailed. Of thee I sing.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops Music

Like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor
Entertainment Music

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
Entertainment Music

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

(1909 – 2000) Danish-born comedian & pianist
Entertainment Music

Ladies and gentlemen, I've suffered for my music… now it's your turn.

(1944 – ) English actor, musician & comic writer
Entertainment Music

Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.

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

Classical Jazz: Rock of ages.

Definitions Music

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

(1818 – 1885) humorist
Arms Entertainment Music

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Beliefs Music People

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

If he’d been making shell cases during the war it might have been better for music.

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