Subject: Entertainment » Music (Page 7)

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

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer

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

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

If love was easy, there would be almost no music.

(1960 – ) American comedian

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

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments – the very lower bowel of music.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

Jazz: Music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles.

(1852 – 1933) author, educator & clergyman

Why do you always insist on playing while I’m trying to conduct?

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

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

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter

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

(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist

I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

(1926 – 1984) English comedian

I practice when I’m loaded.

(1925 – 1985) American jazz saxophonist

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

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

(1968 – ) American actor & comedian

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

Harp: A piano in the nude.