There is no shortage of beautiful quotes about music. But as it turns out, there are a whole lot of funny ones, too!
“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. - Voltaire
“Life is too short to listen to bad music. - Unknown
“My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like bricklaying.- Mick Jagger
“Some people have lives; some people have music. - John Green
“He who sings scares away his woes. - Cervantes
“If you can’t handle me randomly blurting out song lyrics that relate to what you just said, we can’t be friends. - Unknown
“Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde
“I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch. - George Burns
“My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky
“All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Nietzsche
“My taste in music ranges from ‘you need to listen to this now’ to ‘i know, please don’t judge me’. -
“Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? - John Cusack
“I hate it when I’m singing a song and the artist gets the words wrong. - Unknown
“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t. - Tom Waits
“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
“Without music life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Hell is full of musical amateurs. - George Bernard Shaw
“You might be a musician if… you’re more worried about hurting your finger than breaking your leg. - Unknown
“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
“The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats… - Albert Schweitzer
“So much music… so little time. - Unknown
“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul
“My neighbors listen to good music whether they like it or not. - Unknown
“I’m finally old enough to say I despise today’s music. - Unknown
“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
“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
“Strong lager and some early Zep tunes. I ask thee, is there a better way to spend an evening? - Unknown
“Music to me is like breathing – I don’t get tired of breathing, I don’t get tired of music. - Ray Charles
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa
“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain
“I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. - Woody Allen
“Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. - John Ruskin
“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
“Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard
“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
“Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? - Michael Torke
“Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music. - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“My Brain: 5% names, 3% phone numbers, 2% stuff I should know for school, 90% song lyrics. - Unknown
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell
“The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it. - Nat King Cole
“Only sick music makes money today.- Friedrich Nietzsche
“The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. - Leonard Bernstein
“I never practice my guitar… from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat. - Wes Montgomery
“Next to music, beer was best. - Carson McCullers
“Modern music is as dangerous as cocaine. - Pietro Mascagni
“If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. - Doménico Cieri Estrada
“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
“Play it fuckin’ loud! - Bob Dylan
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin
“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
“Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. - Buffy Sainte-Marie
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa
“I smash guitars because I like them. - Pete Townshend
“If the music is too loud – you’re too old! - Unknown
“Friends don’t let friends clap on one & three. - Unknown
“A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. - Benny Green
“Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa
“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
“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
“Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. - Robert Benchley
“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky
“Shut up. My favorite song is playing. - Unknown
