Aspiring Virtuoso Gifts

"O.K., but this time with a little less feeling."

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

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

"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."

'My client has no problem with 'richer' and 'in health'. Our points of contention are 'poorer' and 'in sickness'.'

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

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

'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.'

"Viola player coming through!"

Children's Imagination

Violin Player

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

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

A backup plan might be a good idea, in case 'being a celebrity' doesn't work out...

'He's the bluesman's bluesman.'

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

"You have to practice because if the Devil challenges you to a fiddle contest and wins, he gets your soul."

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

"Mom told me to make my vegetables disapear."

"She gets her musical ability from me."

"That'll be the day!"

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

Hacksaw Violin.

Trying cellos, too big!

Air Sitar.

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

'And now, for your musical entertainment!'

"I promised myself I would never let this happen to me."