There are many funny music quotes from musicians and composers. Check the list below for the 60 funny quotes about music.
Funny Quotes About Music
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- “A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. — Frank Zappa
- “I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.” — Elton John
- “Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” — Jean Paul
- “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” — Steve Martin
- “A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.” — Tom Waits
- “I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.” — Quincy Jones
- “The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.” — Erik Satie
- “All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” — Frank Zappa
- “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.” — Leonard Bernstein
- “I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.” — Jimi Hendrix
- “My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.” — Edith Sitwell
- “I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.” — Woody Allen
- “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.
- “Beethoven’s last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.” — Thomas Beecham
- “The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it’s probably a good thing. We don’t need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.” — Andy Rooney
- “Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music is everywhere, but so is AIDS.” — Malcolm Williamson
- “All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song.” — Louis Armstrong
- “Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Competitions are for horses, not artists.” — Bela Bartok
- “When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!” ― Trent Reznor
- “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
- “Let me be clear about this: I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.” — Keith Richards
- “When I was a little boy, I told my dad, ‘When I grow up, I want to be a musician.’ My dad said: ‘You can’t do both, Son.” — Chet Atkins
- “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
- “Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.” —Oscar Wilde
- “I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?” — Victor Borge
- “It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.” — Johann Sebastian Bach
- “Rock ‘n’ roll will never die. There’ll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.” — Dave Edmunds
- “I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.” — Ella Fitzgerald
- “Get up from that piano. You hurtin’ its feelings.” — Jelly Roll Morton
- “To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.” — Igor Stravinsky
- “To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder.” — Keith Moon
- “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.” — Victor Hugo
- “Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.” — John Philip Sousa
- “We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.” — Mark Twain
- “Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.” — Trent Reznor
- “Dogs smoke in France. \”— Ozzy Osbourne
- “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” — Maya Angelou
- “Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.” — Robert Schumann
- “I think John would have liked Free As A Bird. In fact, I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I’m dead, making them into hit songs.” — George Harrison
- “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
- “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” — Bob Marley
- “The piano has been drinking, not me.” — Tom Waits
- “Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.” — Kin Hubbard
- “There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” — Mark Twain
- “In the end we’re all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven’t been on the show.” — Marilyn Manson
- “Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk in order to provide articles for people who can’t read.” — Frank Zappa
- “Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” — Igor Stravinsky
- “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
- “Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.” — Igor Stravinsky
- “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
- “Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?” — John Cusack
- “Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.” — Harold C. Schonberg
- “Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.” — John Ruskin
- “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I smash guitars because I like them.” — Pete Townshend
- “I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying ‘I don’t want to make a cemetery of your compositions.’ ” — Hugo Wolf
- “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.” — Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
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