Jul 11
“Wagner’s music has beautiful moments but some bad quarters of an hour.”
–Rossini

“Richard Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”
— Mark Twain

“A critic is like a eunich: he knows exactly how it ought to be done.”

“A drummer is a musician’s best friend.”
from a Martin Mull album.

“The present day composer refuses to die.”
— Edgar Varese

“Beethoven had an ear for music.”
— anonymous

“The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.”
The Devil’s Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce

Did you hear that Mr. Solfege had a dog?
His name was feedo.

What do you get when you put a diminished chord together with an augmented chord?
A demented chord.

How many producers does it take to change a light bulb?
…hmm…I don’t know…what do you think?

A first violinist, a second violinist, a virtuoso violist, and a bass player are at the four corners of a football field. At the signal, someone drops a 100 dollar bill in the middle of the field and they run to grab it. Who gets it?
The second violinist, because:

  1. No first violinist is going anywhere for only 100 dollars.
  2. There’s no such thing as a virtuoso violist.
  3. The bass player hasn’t figured out what it’s all about.

Why did the Philharmonic disband?
Excessive sax and violins.

Borodin nothing to do!!


Gone Chopin. Bach in a minuet.

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