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The 69 Funniest Quotes About Music

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Last updated: 08/17/15

There is no shortage of beautiful quotes about music. But as it turns out, there are a whole lot of funny ones, too!

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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. - Voltaire

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Life is too short to listen to bad music. - Unknown

Music Outburst Soul

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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like bricklaying.- Mick Jagger

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Some people have lives; some people have music. - John Green

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He who sings scares away his woes. - Cervantes

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If you can’t handle me randomly blurting out song lyrics that relate to what you just said, we can’t be friends. - Unknown

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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

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I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch. - George Burns

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My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

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All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

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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

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My taste in music ranges from ‘you need to listen to this now’ to ‘i know, please don’t judge me’. -

Don't Pause My Music

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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

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I hate it when I’m singing a song and the artist gets the words wrong. - Unknown

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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t. - Tom Waits

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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 Bad Piano Music

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Without music life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Hell is full of musical amateurs. - George Bernard Shaw

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You might be a musician if… you’re more worried about hurting your finger than breaking your leg. - Unknown

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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

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The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats… - Albert Schweitzer

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So much music… so little time. - Unknown

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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul

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My neighbors listen to good music whether they like it or not. - Unknown

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I’m finally old enough to say I despise today’s music. - Unknown

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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

Music Dance Alone

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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

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Strong lager and some early Zep tunes. I ask thee, is there a better way to spend an evening? - Unknown

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Music to me is like breathing – I don’t get tired of breathing, I don’t get tired of music. - Ray Charles

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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

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I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. - Woody Allen

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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

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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

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard

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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

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Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? - Michael Torke

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Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music. - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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My Brain: 5% names, 3% phone numbers, 2% stuff I should know for school, 90% song lyrics. - Unknown

Funny Elvis Music

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

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The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it. - Nat King Cole

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Only sick music makes money today.- Friedrich Nietzsche

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The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. - Leonard Bernstein

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I never practice my guitar… from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat. - Wes Montgomery

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Next to music, beer was best. - Carson McCullers

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Modern music is as dangerous as cocaine. - Pietro Mascagni

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If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. - Doménico Cieri Estrada

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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

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Play it fuckin’ loud! - Bob Dylan

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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

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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

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Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. - Buffy Sainte-Marie

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

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I smash guitars because I like them. - Pete Townshend

David Bowie More Than Human

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If the music is too loud – you’re too old! - Unknown

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Friends don’t let friends clap on one & three. - Unknown

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. - Benny Green

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Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

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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

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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

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Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. - Robert Benchley

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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

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Shut up. My favorite song is playing. - Unknown

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