Music Humour Quotes

#1. A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name me any genre, and I can give you a list of artists I adore.

Adam Rodriguez

#2. I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

Jon Fishman

#3. Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the English.

Stephen Clarke

#4. I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

Richard Powers

#5. Playing an instrument is its own reward.
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment.

Peter James West

#6. She now represents the Western United States, thus proving politics is even more accepting of the strange, unusual, and mostly useless than the music industry.

John Zakour

#7. And - holy shit was this song bad. It was like the singer was stabbing my ear with a dagger made of dried turds.

David Wong

#8. In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit to produce a rhytmic farting.

Craig Raine

#9. I know about dance, like the creationist knows about science, and typically treat it with a similar contempt

Eilian J. Richmond

#10. He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

John Lydon

#12. (on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006): There is no God.

Noel Gallagher

#13. He begged hard, and said he couldn't play - a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could.

Mark Twain

#14. I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.

Kate Bush

#15. The shades of colours are splendid.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. An hour later and a faint movement caught my eye. Mum was weakly flapping her hand, beckoning me to her. I had no idea how long she had been trying to attract my attention. As I bent over to catch her last words she whispered, 'turn that bloody music off

Laura Marney

#17. Telescopes and bathyscapes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.

Randall Munroe

#18. We stopped and listened. Just on the cusp of hearing I detected a rhythmic pounding, more a vibration in the concrete than a sound.
'Drums,' I said and then because I couldn't resist it. 'Drums in the deep.'
'Drum and Bass in the deep,' said Kumar.

Ben Aaronovitch

#19. Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.

Rick Riordan

#20. Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink.

Douglas Adams

#21. I think that God's got a sick sense of humour, and when I die I expect to find him laughing.

Music Sales Corporation

#22. Life without a pasta machine is like life without music!

Margo Vader

#23. My favourite songs from literally all my favourite albums are usually always track 10. Coincidence? Conspiracy? Illuminati? Time will tell.

Tyler Hojberg

#24. I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

Josephine De La Baume

#25. If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

Jerome K. Jerome

#26. Yeah, you're a regular Mozart ... well, except for the whole music thing.

James Dashner

#27. He bent down so I could hear him over the music. "What are you doing here?" he asked with a hard tone.

Okay. Not the best first line. Something like, you look beautiful, have my babies would have been a little bit better.

R.S. Grey

#28. I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names ... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die.

Alan Bradley

#29. There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millett's

Half Man Half Biscuit

#30. Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.

Michelle Franklin

#31. A bunch of bad songs, make an awful whine.

Benny Bellamacina

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

Stephen Chbosky