Funny quotes about classical music composer

"The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.”
By Benjamin Britten, British composer



"A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out."
By Ernest Newman



"A good composer does not imitate; he steals."
By Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer



"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
By John Cage



"It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table."
By Johannes Brahms



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

Funny VDO : Victor Borge as conductor

Victor Borge as conductor.

Funny quotes about music instruments

"Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune."
By Igor Stravinsky


"The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth."
By Andre Segovia



“The sound of a harpsichord is like two skeletons copulating on a hot tin roof.”
By Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor



"Brass bands are very well in their place outdoors and several miles away"
By Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor



"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. "
By J.S. Bach

Funny VDO : Mickey Mouse & Friends, The Band Concert (1935)

Mickey Mouse & Friends - The Band Concert (1935)
While Mickey Mouse was conducting William Tell oventure,Donald duck, as ice-cream seller, try to interupted by playing flute,Turkey in the Straw.

Funny quotes from great conductors(2)

"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
By Bernard Haitink , Dutch conductor



"Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives."
By Bruno Walter, German conductor




"If I have an orgasm, its good music."
By Leonard Bernstein, American conductor




"God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way."
By Arturo Toscanini, American conductor




"I don't want to repeat this a hundred times. When you see crecendo it means p."
By Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor



"The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong."
By Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor

Funny VDO : Musical Conductor comedy sketch

A hilarious comedy sketch from BBC comedy showcase 'Comedy Shuffle'.

Funny VDO : Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin's shave scene with Brahms's Hungarian dance No.5 from "The Great Dictator"

Funny quotes about Johannes Brahms

"I have played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard!"
By Peter Tchaikovsky, Russian composer



"Brahms is just like Tennyson, an extraordinary musician, with the brains of a third rate village policeman."
By George Bernard Shaw, playwright




"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."
By George Bernard Shaw, playwright



"I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying "I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions."
By Hugo Wolf, Austrain composer



“Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.”
By Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer