Aspiring Pianist Mugs

"Kid, you're going to have to make a choice."

"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."

'You're doing a play in kindergarten?'

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

'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?"

Children's Imagination

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

"I'm astounded that your dog is channeling Eubie Blake! Has he never heard of Elton John?"

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

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

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

"She gets her musical ability from me."

All our servers are locally caught from a sustainable source — the actors' academy across the street.

"That'll be the day!"

Edvard Grieg.

"Tip my boy."

Truthfully, I'm just a frustrated insurance agent …

"First let me say that your father and I really, really wanted to like your performance."

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

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

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

'Good lick with your future acting career. And just to give you an idea of how tough it is out there, here's a copy of 'Withnail and I'. The uncut version.'

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

'Nothing doing folks, except ? surprise, surprise ? here's another for you, Desert Island Bloke.'

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

'I'm playing a crowd member in the Easter pageant. I was going to play Pilate 'til I found out I'd have to wash my hands.'

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

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

"Keep it up Kevin, you're really improving."

"This next one goes out to everyone who wishes I were Bobby Short."

'Can he play anything else besides 'Kitten on the Keys'?'