“Mo' Better Blues” quotes

(1990)
Movie Mo' Better Blues
Spike Lee directed this movie in 1990
Title Mo' Better Blues
Year 1990
Director Spike Lee
Genre Drama, Romance, Music
All actors – Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito, Robin Harris, Joie Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Dick Anthony Williams, Cynda Williams, Nicholas Turturro, Jeff 'Tain' Watts
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  • “I'm a try-sexual. I'll try your little ass tonight.”
    Robin Harris - Butterbean Jones
    [Tag:sex]
  • “The jazz, you know if we had to dep... if we had to depend upon black people to eat, we would starve to death. I mean, you've been out there, you're on the bandstand, you look out into the audience, what do you see? You see Japanese, you see, you see West Germans, you see, you know, Slabobic, anything except our people - it makes no sense. It...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Denzel Washington - Bleek Gilliam
    [Tag:ethnicity, music]
  • “Out of all the people in the world, you never gave anybody else, and look, I love you like a step-brother, but you never gave nobody else a chance t- to play their own music, you complain about... That's right, the people don't come because you grandiose motherfuckers don't play shit that they like. If you played the shit that they like, then...” (continue)(continue reading)

    Wesley Snipes - Shadow Henderson (Sax)
    [Tag:dislike, music, public]
  • “I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.”
    Denzel Washington - Bleek Gilliam
    [Tag:youth]
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