Music quotes

- Sandy Bates: I gotta give my one classical-music joke which I put in every single picture and I invariably cut it out.
- Daisy: Yeah?
- Sandy Bates: Um, uh... "I don't know much about classic music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg tried on their wedding night".
Woody Allen - Sandy Bates
Jessica Harper - Daisy

“I've found that a hit record is like a stew. All the ingredients have to come together just right. Otherwise, it's just soup.”
Chris Ellis - Phil Horace

“Appropriate sparks are flying, somebody cue the power ballad.”
Nick Stahl - Gavin Strick

“Playing music is supposed to be fun. It's about heart, it's about feelings, moving people, and something beautiful, and it's not about notes on a page. I can teach you notes on a page, I can't teach you that other stuff.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Glenn Holland

“- Jack Spade: [looks at musicians] Who are these guys?
- John Slade: They're my theme music. Every hero's got to have some.”
Keenen Ivory Wayans - Jack Spade
Bernie Casey - John Slade

“- Jimmy Rabbitte: What do you play?
- Failed Drug Buyer: I used to play football in school.
- Jimmy Rabbitte: I mean, what instrument?
- Failed Drug Buyer: I don't.
- Jimmy Rabbitte: What are you doing here, then?
- Failed Drug Buyer: Well, I saw everyone else lining up, so I thought you were selling drugs.”
Robert Arkins - Jimmy Rabbitte
Eanna MacLiam - Failed Drug Buyer

“When I say Mali you say bu mali BOO.”

Jamie Kennedy - Brad 'B-Rad' Gluckman

“I'll play the fucking triangle, I just want to make music again!”
Emily Watson - Jackie Du Pré

“You know, I used to be in the music business, but now I'm what you might call retired. It's a refined name for bum.”
Gene Kelly - Danny McGuire

“- Karen Knowles: Tell me Astrid, how are Kirby, Steele and Oakes?
- Astrid Simms: I don't listen to their music.
- Karen Knowles: They're your estate agents, the ones trying to offload Wuthering Heights, so don't pretend you don't need this.
- Astrid Simms: You are a bloody nosy bitch Karen, and also a slut. I remember Isle of Wight.”
Juliet Aubrey - Karen Knowles
Helena Bergström - Astrid Simms

“Everybody's got to take a road trip, at least once in their lives. Just you and some music.”
Kirsten Dunst - Claire Colburn

“In Jailhouse Rock he was everything rockabilly's about. I mean, he is rockabilly. Mean, surly, nasty, rude. In that movie he couldn't give a fuck about nothing except rockin' and rollin', living fast, dying young and leaving a good-looking corpse.”

Christian Slater - Clarence Worley

“- CIA Interrogator: Have you ever met any jazz musicians you would describe, or who would describe themselves, as anarchists?
- Barley: Hmmm... ah, there was a trombone player, Wilfred Baker. He's the only jazz musician I can think of who is completely devoid of anarchist tendencies.”
George Roth - CIA Interrogator
Sir Sean Connery - Barley

“- Blanche: When I hear music, I just can't make my feet behave.
- Sonny: Thinks she's Tinkerbell.”
Dody Goodman - Blanche
Michael Tucci - Sonny

“- Reporter: Why the make-up?
- Brian Slade: Why? Because rock and roll's a prostitute.”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - Brian Slade

“May I start by saying how thrilled we are to have you here. We are such fans of your music and all of your records. I'm not speaking of yours personally, but the whole genre of the rock and roll.”

Fred Willard - Colonel On Military Base

“I've got little games I play when it goes really hard. When I'm working in the factory... and the machines, they make these... rhythms... And I just start dreaming, and it all becomes music.”
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“- Junior: Syncopators. Does that mean you play that very fast music... jazz?
- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: Yeah, real hot.
- Junior: I guess some like it hot. I personally prefer classical music.”
Tony Curtis - Junior
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

“DJ, drop it like it's hot!”
Lil' Kim - Lil' Kim

“- Phil Davis: We seem to be getting a little mixed up.
- Judy Haynes: Maybe it's the music.
- Phil Davis: Maybe it isn't only the music.”
Danny Kaye - Phil Davis
Vera-Ellen - Judy Haynes

“[as Gammy Num-Nums] And yet, Backstreet Boy, this is one girl who isn't content to be the Malcolm in your middle!”
Dana Carvey - Pistachio Disguisey

“First, there's the kind that tells a definite story. Then there's the kind, that while it has no specific plot, does paint a series of more or less definite pictures. Then there's a third kind, music that exists simply for its own sake. Now, the number that opens our Fantasia program is music of this third kind.”

Teller - Himself - Host (segment "The Sorcerer's Apprentice")

Rock 'n' roll is a lifestyle and a way of thinking... and it's not about money and popularity. Although, some money would be nice. But it's a voice that says, "Here I am... and fuck you if you can't understand me". And one of these people is gonna save the world. And that means that rock 'n' roll can save the world... all of us together.
Jason Lee - Jeff Bebe

“Look, Marvin, you gotta play. See, that's where they kiss for the first time on the dance floor. And if there's no music, they can't dance. If they can't dance, they can't kiss. If they can't kiss they can't fall in love, and I'm history.”
Michael J. Fox - Marty McFly

“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