Subject: Entertainment » Music (Page 3)

Shostakovich is without doubt the foremost composer of pornographic music in the history of art.

(1855 – 1937) American musical critic & scholar

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

comedian

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

(1901 – 1963) American comic actor, writer & director

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

U2’s lawyers work pro bono.

Jewish-American stand-up comedian & writer

Jack Benny played Mendelsson last night… Mendelsson lost.

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

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

You might be a redneck if… you think 'N Sync is where the dirty dishes go.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as if the strings are still in the cat.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

It's not music, it's a disease.

(1911 – 2010) American bandleader

Every Death Cab for Cutie song is the perfect soundtrack to me waiting for it to be over.

comedian

Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.

(1914 – 2001) musician, harmonica player

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

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together; the public doesn’t give a damn what goes on inbetween.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

I hate music, especially when it's played.

(1893 – 1980) American singer, pianist, comedian & actor

I practice when I’m loaded.

(1925 – 1985) American jazz saxophonist

After seeing the opera Tosca, Yogi remarked, “I really liked it, even the music was nice”

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist