Subject: Entertainment » Music (Page 8)

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Tonight I’m going to listen with my ears.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

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

Jack Benny played Mendelsson last night… Mendelsson lost.

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right… he failed.

(1927 – 1989) author, essayist & environmentalist

Like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

The secret of my piano playing is that I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist

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

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

comedian

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

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

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

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

(1960 – ) American comedian

Piano: A parlor utensil for subduing the impertinent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter

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

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

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

(1821 – 1867) French poet, essayist & art critic

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

(1888 – 1963) Spanish writer & dramatist

Prodigy: A child who plays the piano when he ought to be in bed.

(1893 – 1979) English humorist

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

stand-up comedian, actor, writer & producer