Music quotes

“It's punk rock, Man! We can do that; we can be punks, Man!”
Cheech Marin - Pedro De Pacas

“- Dad: Where do you get your values? From that stinking heavy metal music you listen to day and night?
- Joe: Yeah, that's it, man. It's all the music! You know everything is just fine until we just listen to a couple of heavy metal albums. Then we get all fucked up!”
David Groh - Dad
Michael Kopelow - Joe

“- Katarina Stratford: You can't just buy me a guitar every time you screw up, you know?
- Patrick Verona: Yeah, I know. But then, you know, there's always drums, and bass, and maybe even one day a tambourine.”

Julia Stiles - Katarina Stratford
Heath Ledger - Patrick Verona

“- Danny McGuire: Hey, do you like Glenn Miller?
- Sonny: Do you like rock 'n' roll?
- Danny McGuire: I love rock 'n' roll.
- Sonny: I love Glenn Miller.”
Gene Kelly - Danny McGuire
Michael Beck - Sonny Malone

“If a guy comes out onstage at Carnegie Hall and throws up, you can always find some people who will call it art.”

Woody Allen - David Dobel

“Listen to them: the children of the night. What sweet music they make.”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Dracula

“Music, you now, true music - not just rock n roll - it chooses you. It live in your car, or alone listening to your headphones, you know, with the cast scenic bridges and angelic choirs in your brain. It's a place apart from the vast, benign lap of America.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Lester Bangs

“- Fred Ayres: The trick is to keep your mind a blank.
- Honey Hale: With that music?”
Fred Astaire - Fred Ayres
Ginger Rogers - Honey Hale

- Records Nurse: Can I get you something?
- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: Yeah, do you have the Beatles' "White Album"? Never mind, just get me a glass of hot fat. And bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia while you're out there.

Loraine Shields - Records Nurse
Chevy Chase - Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher

“- Sammy: Dad, when can I get a guitar?
- Alex: When you've mastered the harmonica.
- Sammy: When can I get an electric guitar?
- Alex: When you've got your own house.”
David Dorfman - Sammy
William H. Macy - Alex

“You never quit on your music. No matter what happens. Cuz anytime something bad happens to you, that's the one place you can escape to and just let it go. I learned it the hard way.”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - Louis Connelly

“Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louie Jordon, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonnyboy Williamson I and II, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Elvis Presley, Lieber and Stoller, and Robert K. Weiss.”

Dan Aykroyd - Elwood Blues

“- Mac: Boys, how many times do I have to tell you, no Van Halen until after I've had my Coffee.
- Johnny: But we've already had ours.”
John Karlen - Mac
Ernie Reyes Jr. - Johnny

“It is terrible, terrible for you to rob me in this way of my most treasured feelings!”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Ludwig van Beethoven

“It's a class system here at CB High, Stevie Boy. Check it out. There, you've got your motor heads, car jocks, all the world's a gasket and a lube job and a pack of Lucky's. Music of choice: Posi-traction overdrive, classic rock, Skynyrd, The Allmans, Bruce. Drug of choice: Beer, Miller Genuine Draft. Keggers can't be choosers.”

Nick Stahl - Gavin Strick

“He is the sweetest guy. Have you ever looked into his eyes? It was like the first time I heard the Beatles.”
Jonah Hill - Seth

“- Danny McGuire: A bandstand. Right over there in that corner. And a big band, like in the 40's.
- Sonny: Nah, nah, nah. Bandstands went out with running boards. Over there. A great rock 'n' roll band. This is the 80's!
- Danny McGuire: Real smooth dancers... wild trombone... the band decked out in tuxedos.
- Sonny: Six guys wearing electric...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Kelly - Danny McGuire
Michael Beck - Sonny Malone

“- Max: I got a new theory about all these suicides. Right?
- Neil Gordon: Don't hold back on us, Max. We need all the help we can get.
- Max: It's fucked up chromosomes, man. Think about it. All their parents dropped acid during the sixties.
- Neil Gordon: Well, it beats Simm's theory. She thinks it's nothing but sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Laurence Fishburne - Max
Craig Wasson - Neil Gordon

“- Lee: With country, it's like you're being told a story that you've heard before. But with progressive, it's like you're going into unknown territory. Exactly.
- Amy: Are you in music, too?
- Jeff Andrews: Drugs.”
Nancy Mette - Lee
Betsy Julia Robinson - Amy
Mark Arnott - Jeff

“- Ma Cox: I'm just so glad you learned to play the guitar so good... even without having a sense of smell!
- Dewey Cox: It's okay mama, I learned how to play by ear.”
Margo Martindale - Ma Cox
John C. Reilly - Dewey Cox

“Blast this Christmas music. It's joyful and triumphant.”
Jim Carrey - Grinch

“Don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy! You can do that in China but you can get your ass killed out here, man!”

Chris Tucker - Carter

“- Sonny: Hey mister, what are you doing up there?
- Danny McGuire: Hope you don't mind a little noon-time music, kid. A little lunch time serenade.
- Sonny: Oh, I don't mind. It's kinda nice. But I was just wondering where they laid out the body. I mean, you got something a little more upbeat?”

Michael Beck - Sonny Malone
Gene Kelly - Danny McGuire

“- Wyatt Donnelly: But it's not so bad. We can hear the music.
- Gary Wallace: [sarcastically] We can hear the music, that's great. Maybe if we put our noses to the door, we can smell the food!”

Ilan Mitchell-Smith - Wyatt Donnelly
Anthony Michael Hall - Gary Wallace

“The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a Dry Martini you always shake to waltz time.”
William Powell - Nick Charles