Funny VDO : Victor Borge "Hungarian Rhapsody No.2"

Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 by Victor Borge.

Funny quotes about Franz Liszt

"I should like to rob him of his way of rendering my own Etudes."
By Frédéric François Chopin, pianist and composer,Liszt's friend.



"In comparison with Liszt, all other pianists are children."
By Anton Rubenstein, Russian pianist



"It's all in how you market it. Play a few fast scales, give'em a backup orchestra tapping the rhythm, light a few strobe candles, and they're all yours." 
By Niccolo Paganini, violinist, talked to Franz Liszt.



"Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his."
By Franz Liszt



“Liszt. This is Liszt. He's really a bad guy. It's really a bit scary. You're too nice.”
By Lang Lang , Chinese pianist.

Funny VDO : Tom and Jerry Piano- Liszt Hungarian Rapsody No.2

One of the most famous Liszt's Hungarian rhapsody transcription.Presented by Tom and Jerry.

Funny quotes from classical music pianists(2)

"My face is my passport. "
By Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist



"You need three or five hands to play Ligeti."
By Alfred Brendel , Austrain pianist
(Don't know Ligeti? Try this :P)



"I never practice; I always play."
By Wanda Landowska, Polish pianist



"An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted. "
By Claude Arrau , Chilean pianist



“Bad music disturbs me, but wonderful music disturbs me even more.”
By Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist

Funny VDO : Jack Benny & Giselle Mackenzie

Gisele MacKenzie and Jack Benny

Funny quotes from great conductors.

"Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience."
By George Szell



"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."
By Leonard Bernstein



"If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong."
By Simon Rattle


“Can't you read? The score demands "con amore," and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!”
By Arturo Toscanini



"Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace."
By Leonard Bernstein



“When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.”
By Leonard Bernstein



“Everything is written in the score. Except from the really important things.”
By Gustav Mahler

Funny VDO : Mr.bean conducts Christmas Orchestra

Mr. Bean conducts Christmas Orchestra

Funny quotes about Opera

"When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance."

By Victor Borge, Danish comedian

"How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers."

By Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer

"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand."

By Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist

"No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me."

By Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor

"In opera, there is always too much singing."

By Claude Debussy, French composer

 

"No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing."
By W.H. Auden, American poet

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."

By Voltaire, French writer

Funny VDO : Sissel Kyrkjebo

Sissel Kyrkjebo O Sole Mio with funny violinist Kalle Moraeus in concert.

Funny quotes from classical music musician(3)

"I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous."

By Peter Tchaikovsky, Russian pianist and composer

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."

By Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer

"There is nothing more difficult than talking about music."

By Camille Saint-Saens, French composer

"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."

By Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer

"There is one god: Bach, and Mendelssohn is his prophet."

By Hector Berlioz, French composer

"Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them."

By Richard Strauss, Austria composer

"I never understood the need for a 'live' audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one."

By Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer

Funny VDO : Great Piano Teacher

"A little Nightmare Music" perform by Igudesman and Joo

Funny quotes from violinist and cellist

“If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.”
By  Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist




"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."
By Pablo Casals, Spain Cellist



"For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius."
By Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish Violinist



"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons: first, to disourage the composer from writing anymore, and second, to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."
By Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist

"There are more bad musicians than there is bad music."
By Isaac Stern

 "You paid for the whole bow, you will use the whole bow."

By Henry Meyer (LaSalle String Quartet)

 

"You may be ready for Beethoven,but Beethoven is not ready for you!" 

By Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist

Funny VDO : Jack Benny and Talia

Jack Benny and Talia

The name of song in this clip is composed by Franz Schubert, classical music composer.

12 year old Talia Marcus on the Jack Bennny Show 1960's