“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” – Mark Twain
“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley
“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” – Voltaire
“Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because I listen to pop music?” – John Cusack
I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.” – Bob Newhart
“Give me a laundry list and I’ll set it to music.” Gioacchino Antononio Rossini
“I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.” – Elton John
“No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing.” – W.H. Auden
“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, sings.” – Ed Gardner
“I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.” – Alfred Hitchcock
