21 Ridiculous Music Stock Photos That Exist For No Reason

    There's never a good reason to lick your instrument. It's gross.

    1. The winking ensures that the judges won't notice the fact that you're holding your clarinet sideways and biting it instead of playing.

    2. If you can't play "Wonderwall" like this, you're not a real guitarist.

    3. Most people outside the biz don't know that all violins are actually made of chocolate.

    4. This duet is going to be VERY difficult considering the violin doesn't have strings.

    5. This is how many feuds between women in music start.

    6. He even practices in his bathtub. What's your excuse?

    7. Actually, why not use those precious seconds you spend expelling waste to strum a few chords? Don't you want to be a better musician?

    8. This piece called "Finale" for solo violin is meant to be played underwater because once you do this to an instrument you will be shamed out of the music world.

    9. Destroying instruments is NOT ~punk~ it is a HUGE WASTE OF MONEY.

    10. But you know if someone covered YOUR cello in shitty silver paint, you'd want to saw it in half too.

    11. This former clarinetist clearly can't let go of the idea of "tonguing" her instrument.

    12. This conductor that went full meta and conducted himself promptly exploded after this photoshoot.

    13. How do you do...that without making percussionists around the world irrationally angry?

    14. Trumpet players don't usually use that much tongue. Or face makeup.

    15. Turns out lots of people don't like classical music because they've been listening to it like this the whole time.

    16. String players have stopped using words and now communicate by gently tapping each other on the head with their bows.

    17. Everyone knows the only way to get through scales is to reward yourself with inconveniently placed fruit.

    18. If your teacher asks you why you haven't learned that sonata yet, send her this picture.

    19. Actually, this is probably a fairly accurate depiction of theremin players.

    20. This is after someone asked him to play that twee version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow."

    21. In case you're wondering, jazz is not just Louis Armstrong, or Miles Davis, or Dizzy Gillespie. It's rodents playing tiny instruments in the wild.