Subject: Entertainment » Music (Page 3)

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

(1879 – 1961) English conductor
Entertainment Music

Accordian: An instrument inharmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Definitions Entertainment Music

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

(1864 – 1949) German composer
Entertainment Music

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

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

Fortissimo at last!

(1860 – 1911) Austrian composer
Entertainment Music Places

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

(1886 – 1963) literary critic, biographer & historian
Insults Music Reading/Writing

Berlioz composes by splashing his pen over the manuscript and leaving the issue to chance.

(1810 – 1849) Polish composer & virtuoso pianist
Entertainment Insults Music

A composer for one right hand.

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

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

Entertainment Music Reviews/Criticism

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
Entertainment Music Places

I was doing some musical research, and I found out it was actually white people that came up with rap music… only, they call it square dancing.

(1951 – ) American comedian & writer
Entertainment Music

Berlioz, musically speaking, is a lunatic; a classical composer only in Paris, the great city of quacks.

Entertainment Insults Music Places

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

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

I like Wagner’s music better than anybody’s; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Entertainment Music Reviews/Criticism

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

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
Entertainment Insults Music

It's a bunch of guys all playing different songs at the same time.

(1968 – ) American actor & comedian
Entertainment Music

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music?

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

Get up from that piano; you hurtin' its feelings.

(1885 – 1945) American ragtime pianist, bandleader & composer
Entertainment Music

The musician who invented Swing ought to.

Communication Entertainment Music

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
Entertainment Music Relationships