Quotes About Music

It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

I can't watch American Idol... it's like karaoke without the booze.

It's literally murder on the dancefloor.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

I can conduct better than I count.

I conduct faster so you can see my beat.

Start three bars before something.

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.

I didn't know every day I would be discussing the tone of my voice with my wife. I thought it was a marriage. Apparently, it's a musical.

The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.

It's funny when people debate about music, because they get so passionate about what they enjoy.

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in.

There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

I wish his music came out of the closet and admit that it sucks.

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny.

I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny.

[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park.

Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.