Funny quotes about Wagner

“For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.”
By Robert Schumann, German composer



“Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.”
By Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer



"One can't judge Wagner's opera 'Lohengrin' after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time."
By Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer



"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."
By Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet



"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."
By Woody Allen, American comedian



“I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.”
By Mark Twain, American author



“Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.”
By Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer



"Wagner, thank the fates, is no hypocrite. He says out what he means, and he usually means something nasty."
By James Huneker, American music writer and critic

Funny VDO : Victor Borge's Chopin

Victor Borge with Chopin's waltz, op. 64

Funny quotes from classical music composer

“There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.”
By Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer



"I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony."
By Gyorgy Legeti , Hungarian composer



"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
By Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer



"If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder."
By Walter Damrosh,German composer and conductor, Talked about Aaron Copland, American composer



"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."
By Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer

Funny VDO : hilarious parody of Carmen

Funny Carman

Funny quotes from violinist and cellist(2)

"The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet."
By Yehudi Menuhin, Russian Violinist



"Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities."
By Itzhak Perlman, Israeli Violinist



"One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening."
By Itzhak Perlman, Israeli Violinist



“The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.”
By Pablo Casals, Spanist Cellist



“The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.”
By Pablo Casals, Spanist Cellist

Funny VDO : Jack Benny and Lucy

Jack Benny and Lucy. Lucy is an American comedy.



PS.This clip,she fake violin playing, however that a good fake :D