Musical Aspirant Mugs

Secretly, I've always wished I could sing.

". . . And now for a golden oldie! A blast from the past!"

"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'."

"An actor, you say? Guess you caught the acting-like-a-waiter bug."

What else is there to wish for?

"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.'

'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."

Why do you direct the school musical, Mr. K? It's a privilege

Jeff Beck.

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

Music Hall Dancers

Children's Imagination

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

Sir Conrad Murgatroyd

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

"These songbirds every morning at five A.M. would be really annoying if they weren't so damn talented."

"Nobody at school will laugh at me."

'I have never seen a resume prepared in pastels and oil paint. How long have you been unemployed?'

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

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

"She gets her musical ability from me."

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

"That'll be the day!"

Move Up In The World or Down Hill All The Way.

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

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

'Buy this house sir, and you could be a star in a DIY make-over programme!'

"I don't understand what people are saying up here."

"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."

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

"Is this speech pie-in-the-sky nonsense or aspirational?"