Funny Music Quotes - Page 4

• Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

  Tom Morello

  Funny, Music, Two

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• Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

  Michael Torke

  Funny, Music, Listening

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• Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

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• People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

  Al Yankovic

  Funny, Thinking, People

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

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• Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• What passion cannot music raise and quell!

  John Dryden

  Music, Passion, Piano

  A Song for St. Cecilia's Day st. 2 (1687)

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• Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Lying, Tired

  'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 1

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• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Jazz And Life, Doe

  In Peter Yates Twentieth Century Music (1967) pt. 1, ch. 8. Cf. T. S. Eliot 76:8, Lionel Trilling 218:1

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• Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

  John Philip Sousa

  Music, Feet, Free Jazz

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.52, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.

  Thom Yorke

  Order, Creative, Energy

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• They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Music, Sound, Opera

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• To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.

  PSY

  Song, Rocks, Korea

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• Next to music beer was best.

  Carson McCullers

  Funny, Music, Drinking

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.353, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Funny, Music, Used

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

  Simon Rattle

  Music, Piano, Composer

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• Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Song, Errors

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wine, Piano

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• I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

  James Brown

  Music, Names, Tunes

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• Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Memories

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.88, Wordsworth Editions

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• All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Music, Airports

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• Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 1978

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• Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Smell, Free Jazz

  Song: Be-Bop Tango, 1974

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