It doesn't matter how cheap and tinny the show is...Soon…

I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

— George Harrison

When the band starts banging and the fiddle saws.

— Blake Shelton

It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's…

— Kim Gordon

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and…

— Leslie Nielsen

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the…

— Karen Abbott

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not…

— John Baldessari

“...posterity was a vaudeville joke audible only to those with front-row seats...”

— Roberto Bolano

On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their…

— Libba Bray

I do some very high energy comedy, vaudeville, music hall stuff, and people who've seen my work on camera, on TV and movies, would…

— Denis Lawson

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

— Larry Gelbart

as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game…

— Carl Hiaasen

Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in…

— Arundhati Roy

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

— Goodman Ace

Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.

— Ann Reinking

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from…

— Mickey Rooney