Aspiring Musicians Gifts

'When I grow up I want to be a rock star.'

"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'."

Four children playing the flute.

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

'I don't care if Jackson Pollock did start out this way. We are drawing kittens.'

Busking, "Stop worrying your father for money."

'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.'

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

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

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

Jeff Beck.

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

'Man it's a tough crowd tonight!'

Children's Imagination

"Next, I'd like to play 'Guantanamera.'"

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

'I couldn't practice last night on account of my Dad's head was gonna' explode.'

"Mom told me to make my vegetables disapear."

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

"That'll be the day!"

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

"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.'

"She gets her musical ability from me."

"I think your guitar's broken. No matter what you play, it sounds the same."

"The extent of your extracurricular activities in high school, may very well be participation in regular program of oral hygiene using an effective decay preventaative tooth paste, but that won't get you into a good university."

'Oh Rats! I can't be creative with a box of flat crayons!'

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

"I've been an emerging artist for ten years now..."

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

'While my guitar gently creeks.'

'I need to practice painting the human figure, MOM! Models cost money!"

'I think I see why you're progressing slowly in music.'

"I'd better get a hit country song out of growing up this way."

"We could start a band."