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30 Hilarious Music Memes To Soothe Your Inner Performer
Interview With Expert
Music is probably in every person's life in some shape or form. Whether you listen, play, or maybe even compose, it's one of the art forms many people enjoy. 66% of Americans say they learned to play a musical instrument at some point in their lives, and even if they don't anymore, the appreciation for music most likely is still there.
Today, we're dedicating a post to some funny memes about music. It's our tribute to music enthusiasts, artists, singers, composers, prodigies, and struggling students alike. So scroll down and let the music flow with the memes from the Best Music Memes Instagram page!
Because we're true classical music lovers here, we reached out to American musician and composer Elaine Fine, who has years of experience and 200 pieces of chamber music and three operas under her belt.
She graciously agreed to tell Bored Panda more about her journey as a musician and how she started writing about music. Also, we picked her brain about why the stereotype that classical music is for rich people only persists to this day, and she even shared her favorite classical music pun. Read her expert insights below!
Elaine Fine: Musical Assumptions | Elaine Fine's Thematic Catalogue
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The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
He does put a lot of effort into his scores and is paid handsomely for it. It definitely makes the movie so much better. We don’t do grand opera anymore but movie scores have taken their place.
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Rigor Moreno 2 years ago
Yeah! No doubt he's listening to music and not answering a call. Not the mic part on his ear. :D
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Heiko Braun 2 years ago
That's the life of stage-people. We are there to make you happy because we know how it feels to be unhappy.
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unfilteredCigarette73 2 years ago (edited)
My favorite Simpsons bit: Lisa at jazz club watching a performance and another patron says it sounds like she is hitting a baby with a cat, Lisa replied that "you have to listen to the notes she's not playing" guy replies "I could do that at home"😭
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
To anyone who loves orchestrated music, today's film soundtrack composers are writing music just as fantastic as the classical composers.
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Petra Schaap 2 years ago
this is me with my guitar. And when that someone is one of my heroes (i have heroes in smaller bands) i will manage to strap that guitar on backwards and upside down.
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Jerome Lenovo 2 years ago
so we are witnessing the creation of the song I want you (she's so heavy) ? :P
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Jerome Lenovo 2 years ago
my wife knows when she can/has to unplug a guitar or not .... its the active jackson, she knows that
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Bartlet for World Domination 2 years ago
Or the other way around: https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/maria-joao-pires-wrong-piano-concerto/
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
Wrong notes for jazz improvisors just become grace notes or leading tones to transpose to a new key.
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
My friend told me the story of his piano lessons as a kid. His teacher called his mother and said "Dave seems to enjoy the music but he does not seem to be improving at all. How long is he practicing every day?" His mother answered " Oh we don't own a piano."
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
Jazz musician here with years of ear training and music theory knowledge. I can confirm any music we hear triggers automatic analysis in our brain.
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Starthief 2 years ago
Back in high school I had a duet being judged at the state competition... broke an E tuning up right before we were supposed to go in. My conductor reached into his jacket pocket and triumphantly pulled out a set of spare strings that he usually doesn't carry but grabbed because of a premonition.
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Bertha Madott 2 years ago
No no no. The last one is “practicing to show off to your neighbours “
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Auntriarch 2 years ago
Well that's just mean, I know lots about classical music.... As long as it featured in Fantasia 😂
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Jerome Lenovo 2 years ago
now imagine that mp3, but listened through a smartphone speaker B1fXXWnM3x...761142.png 
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
True! We ear trained musicians play for fun and enjoyment. Classical orchestra musicians I have met were forced to learn the violin by their parents and never even listen to classical music. It is often simply a job skill for them.
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
Anecdote: My friend was a sax player for years with the Maynard Ferguson big band. All the horn player prided themselves on their breath capacity and they ran long distance often. One day they invited their drummer Peter Erskine to go along for a run. Peter outran all of the horn players. The reason was Peter regularly practiced yoga and the yoga breathing exercises.
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Petra Schaap 2 years ago
i once told a professional artist that i worked as a cleaner at a school for special needs kids. He said "be nice to them because they will all be professional artists one day"
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
Even more rare and thrilling is for a jazz musician to meet any other jazz musician. They are very rare in this modern world.
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Hassel Davidhoff 2 years ago
Got some bad news for ya: if yer just sampling other people's music and mixing it: you aren't a musician.
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Petra Schaap 2 years ago
me with my saxophone. Its not that hard to impress people while playing some random notes fast.
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
All of the best musicians I knew had an element of OCD. They had to practice or they felt somehow incomplete. They also were perfectionists and absolutely never quit until they had played the music perfect.
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Bertha Madott 2 years ago
I have a rule for myself during holidays. I don’t have to learn new music. I try to play old favourites every day. Very helpful
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
How do you get a rock guitarist to turn his volume down? Put sheet music in front of him.
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
If you think about it, only the composer really groks the piece of music. He notates the score just to be able to hear an orchestra play it. The orchestral musicians are essentially robots who can translate written notation into sound. And yes, synthesizers and computers can also play back sheet music perfectly. But that human randomness is what gives live music its richness and warmth.
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
Jazz is not random notes. There is tons of music theory and harmonic rules we use. The non trained non musician just does not understand it and cannot hear the harmony and scales we have learned. It is like asking someone who never passed algebra to understand and appreciate the science and math required to send a spacecraft to the moon.
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
As a jazz pianist, I think the music in Hell would be endlessly streaming Christmas music, alternating between Rap, HipHop, Country and microtuning Eastern stringed instruments. Maybe also little free from jazz.
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talliloo 2 years ago
i so wish i knew this quote 50 yrs ago. my lovely grandmother had promised the instrument and lessons for any instrument that i wanted to play. i LOVED the cello so told her and was met with an emphatic NO - choose something else. why? because in her mind i would not be able to sit 'like a lady'. wtf??!!! to this day i regret not being able to learn that instrument. nan - love you and miss you but boy did you have some strange ideas.
Bertha Madott 2 years ago
Fantastic I was procrastinating practicing (Debussy Arabesque #1j and will now get moving. Thx
talliloo 2 years ago
i so wish i knew this quote 50 yrs ago. my lovely grandmother had promised the instrument and lessons for any instrument that i wanted to play. i LOVED the cello so told her and was met with an emphatic NO - choose something else. why? because in her mind i would not be able to sit 'like a lady'. wtf??!!! to this day i regret not being able to learn that instrument. nan - love you and miss you but boy did you have some strange ideas.
Bertha Madott 2 years ago
Fantastic I was procrastinating practicing (Debussy Arabesque #1j and will now get moving. Thx
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