Funny Music Quotes - Page 3

• Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

  Kin Hubbard

  Music, Thinking, Tunes

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• Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

  John Ruskin

  Music, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  1881 Letter.

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• I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

  Duke Ellington

  Funny, Music, Girl

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• There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Music, Fear

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• Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

  Paul Whiteman

  Music, Years, America

  1926 Jazz.

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• Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

  Charlie Parker

  Motivational, Music, Humorous

  "Words of Wisdom". Book edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 435, 1990.

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Funny, Music, Joy

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (May 28, 1810), as quoted in Bettina von Arnim "Goethe's Correspondence with a Child", 1835.

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• Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Autobiography (published in 1924).

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• Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.

  Ian Gillan

  Funny, Mother, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational Music, Together, Body

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• Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Piano, Long, Teeth

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• Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

  John Cusack

  Funny, Music, Miserable

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• Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Funny, Music, Witty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.

  Paul McCartney

  Funny, Music, Song

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• Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Music, Years, Piano

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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• If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

  Mencius

  Music, Kings, Land

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• I smash guitars because I like them.

  Pete Townshend

  Funny, Music, Guitar

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• Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Music, Children

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Music, Love You

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.266, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Music, Two

  In Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978) p. 27

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• The piano has been drinking, not me.

  Tom Waits

  Music, Drinking, Piano

  Song: The Piano Has Been Drinking, Album: Small Change

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