Aspiring Musician Mugs

Violin practice.

"If I had it all to do over again, I would have liked to be the King of Swing."

'Don't worry about not being musical. You've got plenty of time to learn...'

'Will I ever get it right?'

'The worst thing about being armless is, I'll never play guitar and become a rock star.'

"She gets her musical ability from me."

"I owe my success to him. I figured, if he can make it, so can I."

He kept up his guitar practise...

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

"I'm gonna be a 'New Yorker' cartoonist. You're not supposed to understand it."

Guitar Man.

"...then finally, I got serious and started a band."

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

Busking, "Stop worrying your father for money."

"My wife has always encouraged me... ...to quit this stupid dream and get a real job." ... "You have a wife?"

'Hey guys?. . . Help us think what Dale could do for his '15 minutes of fame.''

'Man it's a tough crowd tonight!'

"Obviously, I can't fly like you, but if you teach me, I can probably sing like you..."

Children's Imagination

"Nobody at school will laugh at me."

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

"That'll be the day!"

This next number is when we smash our guitars...

Lou Reed

'Here's one my dad wrote.'

"This next song is for my ex-wife Joan."

"I've made a fortune as a successful artist! I couldn't see this happening if I became a soldier or a worker..."

'I told you I'd make you a star.'

"I couldn't get a signal while I was at the mall. I can now relate to those songs that sing about the blues."