Funny Music Quotes - Page 2

• Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Music, Brass Bands

  “Readers recommend: best brass songs” by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2014.

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• When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

  Don McLean

  Funny, Music, Song

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• I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

  Artur Schnabel

  Music, Play, Piano

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• Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Music, Giving, Lists

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• Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

  Paul Simon

  Wisdom, Dope, Forever

  "Raffi: Advocate for Children, Earth and Music". Interview with Marilyn Price-Mitchell, www.rootsofaction.com. August 2014.

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

  Howard Dietz

  Inspirational, Music, Thinking

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• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Children, Animal, Pet

  In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

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• You are the music while the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Music, Dope, Jazz And Life

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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• Hell is full of musical amateurs.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Music, Clever, Hell

  Man and Superman act 3 (1903)

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• It would be interesting if Elvis were reincarnated as an Elvis impersonator.

  Demetri Martin

  Interesting, Would Be, Impersonators

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2013

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• The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

  Nat King Cole

  Funny, Music, Talking

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  My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  Edith Sitwell

  Funny, Music, Reading

  Reader's Digest, Volume 111, No. 666, October 1977.

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• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivational, Music, Wisdom

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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• All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

  Louis Armstrong

  Funny, Music, Song

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 7 July 1971

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• I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

  Zachary Levi

  Music, Dance, Song

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• If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.

  Domenico Cieri

  Funny, Music, Imports

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• After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

  Jeff Beck

  Funny, Music, Home

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• To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

  Waylon Jennings

  Inspirational, Guitar Music, Ems

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• A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

  Ernest Newman

  Music, Found, Composer

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• I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

  Bob Newhart

  Funny, Music, Country

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  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  Harlan Howard

  Music, Country, Inspiration

  "Country Scribe Harlan Howard Dies" by Andrew Dansby, www.rollingstone.com. March 5, 2002.

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• Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Music, Hurt, Piano

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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