Best quotes by Christopher Guest on Music

Checkout quotes by Christopher Guest on Music

  • Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
    - Christopher Guest
  • In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk music, it's the seriousness with which these people approach their 'art.'
    - Christopher Guest
  • I've been fortunate. I get to write films. I get to write music in films. I get to play arenas wearing a wig.
    - Christopher Guest
  • I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do you want to play?' I said the drums, and my mother said, 'No, you don't. You don't want to play the drums.' So I said, 'Maybe the trumpet would be cool.' And my mother said, 'I don't think so.' And then the clarinet was handed to me.
    - Christopher Guest
  • It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for music and art in New York City, and then found the guitar and the mandolin after it.
    - Christopher Guest
  • My passion is more specific, in the sense that I've always liked doing comedy. I've always liked doing music. I like acting. And apparently, you need those things in movies.
    - Christopher Guest
  • I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.
    - Christopher Guest
  • Music means a great deal to me.
    - Christopher Guest