Music quotes

My father, he did not care for music. When I told him how I wished I could be like Mozart, he would say; "Why? Do you want to be a trained monkey? Would you like me to drag you around Europe, doing tricks like a circus freak?".
F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“Come on girls. This is supposed to be upbeat, not uptight. Get happy.”

Patsy Kensit - Cheryl Steed

“What's true about music is true about life: that beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing.”
Toni Collette - Mandy Slade

“- Marty DiBergi: It's very pretty.
- Nigel Tufnel: Yeah, I've been fooling around with it for a few months.
- Marty DiBergi: It's a bit of a departure from what you normally play.
- Nigel Tufnel: It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rob Reiner - Marty DiBergi
Christopher Guest - Nigel Tufnel

“- Grace: You're a little tense, don't you think?
- Al: Who wouldn't be tense? This music could make Will Rogers punch a nun.”

Jamie Lee Curtis - Grace
Joe Mantegna - Al

“My life was nothing until I found the music.”
Laraine Newman - Teenage Louise

“After the nuclear holocaust, the survivors will crawl out of the rubble, in the dark, light a fire and then one man, The Singer of Songs, will sing, and that's the essence of Rock 'n' Roll.”
Jason Flemyng - Bobby Beers

“These rooms... sound so empty without the sound of his music.”

Brittany Murphy - Molly

“- Ricky Bobby: Nobody plays jazz at the Pit Stop!
- Jean Girard: Then why is the song on the jukebox?
- Bartender: We use it for profiling purposes. We also have the Pet Shop Boys and Seal.”
Will Ferrell - Ricky Bobby
Sacha Baron Cohen - Jean Girard
Danny Cox - Bartender

“I'll use music as fuel, you know? Not like as inspiration but as fuel like if I need to get into a certain mindset I know there's certain songs that I can turn on that'll just... that's the gas and that'll get me right where I need to go. Or if I need to get out of a certain state put on this song or that song and it just propels you.”
John Cusack - Rob Gordon

“We in the show business have our religion too - on every day, the show must go on!”
Al Jolson - Jakie Rabinowitz

“You know when I was a boy and rock'n'roll came to East Germany, the communists said it was subversive... Maybe they were right.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger - John Matrix

“This is not like I expected at all! We got totally lied to by our album covers.”

Alex Winter - Bill

“Everybody should be able to make some music. That's the cosmic dance.”
Ruth Gordon - Maude

“Disco will never be over. It will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this, that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Oh, for a few years - maybe many years - it'll be considered passé and ridiculous. It will be misrepresented and caricatured and sneered at, or - worse - completely ignored. People...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Keeslar - Josh

“- Bad Blake: You know that song? Hmmm?
- Jean Craddock: I can't remember who did it.
- Bad Blake: That's the way it is with good ones, you're sure you've heard them before.”

Jeff Bridges - Bad Blake
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Jean Craddock

“Soul is the music people understand. Sure it's basic and it's simple. But it's something else because it's honest, that's it. It's honest. There's no fuckin' bullshit. It sticks its neck out and says it straight from the heart.”
Robert Arkins - Jimmy Rabbitte

“- Roland Sharp: Why do you find it necessary to listen to this constant crap?
- Anne: What's the matter? You don't like vagina music?
- Roland Sharp: Do you have to use that word before I've had my coffee and soymilk?”

Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp
Christina Milian - Anne

“- Franco: You're looking better. You still gotta learn how to relax, though.
- Kelly: I'll work at it.
- Franco: Loosen up. Let the music caress you.”
Ben Lokey - Franco
Lucinda Dickey - Kelly

“Music maker also murder stick!”
Sabu - Kado

“- Kane: I just don't like techno.
- J.P.: You would if you had robot ears.”
Kelvin Yu - Kane
Joel David Moore - J.P.

“- Mr. Green: Lovely thing you're playing, Victor. What is it?
- Sir Victor Fitzroy Victor: It's a piano.”
Rex Evans - Mr. Green
Victor Borge - Sir Victor Fitzroy Victor

“- Ned Schneebly: Why don't you sell one of your guitars or something?
- Dewey Finn: What? Would you tell Picasso to sell his guitars?”
Mike White - Ned Schneebly
Jack Black - Dewey Finn

“This beautiful concert that you've just heard could be the very last concert for the East Harlem Violin Program. The board of education and the district attorney think that music isn't important. But they are wrong! And they're gonna get a big fight!”

Meryl Streep - Roberta Guaspari

“They can try to stop the paradise that we're dreamin' of, but you'll never stop the rhythm of two hearts in love to stay. Cause you can't stop the beat.”