Gioachino Rossini Quotes

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons.

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will perform together as the first time, as man and wife. Hopefully music.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

She had been critical of his new torch song, "A Side Order of Heartache, Please," suggesting it could be used as a good way to break in their new paper shredder.

Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Start three bars before something.

Last year we drove across the country...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what it was.

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

Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Somethings you can do better than others, some things you can't do as well. So accentuate the positive.