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Musical Quotes - Second Movement

written by: shimonbentzvi
 
A difficult quiz on quotes by musicians and/or quotes on music. The quote is given and the speaker is required.

Question 1:


Who said, "Music is not dead, it just smells funny."?  (place mouse pointer over ? icon to view hints or answer requirements)
Frank Zappa
Stevie Wonder
Ray Charles
Kurt Cobain

Question 2:


Who made this statement: "Without music, life would be a mistake."?
Immanuel Kant
Groucho Marx
Friedrich Nietzsche
Karl Marx

Question 3:


What influential guitarist stated, "If it has more than three chords, it's jazz."?
Lou Rawls
Louis Costanza
Lou Reed
Louis Armstrong

Question 4:


This person stated, "Next to theology I give music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song."  (place mouse pointer over ? icon to view hints or answer requirements)
Martin Luther
John Wesley
Jim Carrey
John Calvin

Question 5:


This composer, famous for the ballet Firebird, said, "My music is best understood by children and animals."
Irving Berlin
Igor Stravinsky
Rimsky Korsakov
Petr Ilytch Tchaikivsky

Question 6:


This man, who appeared in the animated film Fantasia, said, "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But a musician paints pictures on silence."
Leopold Stokowski
Leonard Bernstein
Walt Disney
Roy Hobbs

Question 7:


This prolific composer, who died way to young, said, "I write as a sow piddles."
Bach
Frank Zappa
Mozart
Beethoven

Question 8:


This influential musician and producer, famous also as Rashida's dad, stated, "Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush."
Stevie Wonder
Quincy Jones
Will Smith
Frank Zappa

Question 9:


What saxophonist said, "A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."?
Benny Green
Ben Blue
Benny Golston
Benny Goodman

Question 10:


This singer made the following statement: "I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill or exercise or yodelling or something, not music."  (place mouse pointer over ? icon to view hints or answer requirements)
Mariah Carey
Billie Holiday
Frank Sinatra
Rosemary Clooney

Question 11:


This bandleader, who was once married to Charo, said, "I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve."
Carlos Santana
Quincy Jones
Lou Reed
Xavier Cugat

Question 12:


About which recording group did Decca Records say this: "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."?
The Tremelos
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The E-Street band

Question 13:


What member of the Beatles said this: "Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day."?
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Ringo Starr
George Harrison

Question 14:


This Grammy Award-winning artist said, "Music is spiritual. The music business is not."  (place mouse pointer over ? icon to view hints or answer requirements)
Morrisey
Van Morrison
Jim Morrison
Eddie Van Halen

Question 15:


What artist said, "People deserve the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but its essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."?
Frank Sinatra
Whitney Houston
Bruce Springsteen
Jerry Lewis

Question 16:


Name the artist who said, "I always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart."
Leonard Bernstein
Waylon Jennings
Lou Reed
Dolly Parton

Question 17:


What performer said, "Its much too late to do anything about rock & roll now."?
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Garcia
Jerry Jeff Walker

Question 18:


Name the person quoted here: "It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."
Thomas Alva Edison
Jonas Salk
Bill Gates
Albert Einstein

Question 19:


What musician said, "There are more bad musicians than bad music."?
Bela Bartok
Yitzrach Perleman
Isaac Stern
Yo-Yo Ma

Question 20:


This Academy Award- winning artist said, "That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. Its like wanting to be senile."
Donnie Osmond
Roberta Flack
Ed Sullivan
Randy Newman

Question 21:


Select the quote by Elvis Costello
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's really a stupid thing to wan to do."
"A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors."
"I want to do a musical movie, like Evita but with good music."

Question 22:


Select the quote by Garth Brooks.
"Love is friendship set to music."
"My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a music producer."
"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings."
"The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself."

 
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