Aspiring Virtuoso Mugs

"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."

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

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

"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?"

'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!"

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

Violin Player

Children's Imagination

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

Mr. K's essay is such a drag! Yeah, but I've got to do really well. Twig! You're such a grind! Am not! Life isn't only about grades. I know! But he's directing the spring musical. And my singing won't get me the part all by itself! English: Gateway to the Grammys.

"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."

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack Writes A Top Ten Hit

"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."

I'm trying out for the spring play. You'll be great! Ha! You'll be grateful to be an usher, Meryl Creep. Yeah. The good parts go to real actors. Sigh. The arts are sooo uplifting.

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

Trying cellos, too big!

"She gets her musical ability from me."

Hacksaw Violin.

"That'll be the day!"

Air Sitar.

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

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

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