Top Ten Quirky Quotations About Music

The Top Ten

1 I can't listen to too much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland. (Woody Allen)

2 I know you think we just sit and count money, but sometimes we do other things, like teach the drummer to play piano. (Chris Martin)

3 I am afraid that all musical instruments are incredibly expensive to repair, with the possible exception of the triangle. (Terry Pratchett)

4 I have a reasonable good ear in music: let us have the tongs and the bones. (William Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night's Dream)

5 Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand. (Artur Schnabel)

6 I assure you that the typewriting machine, when played with expression, is not more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. (Oscar Wilde)

7 Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. (Oscar Wilde)

8 No wonder Bob Geldof is such an expert on famine. He's been feeding off 'I Don't Like Mondays' for thirty years. (Russell Brand)

9 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)

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10 Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. (George Bernard Shaw)

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