Music quotes

“I want you all to take a second and just... breathe. Deep breaths. Now listen to me. I want you all to play from your heart. Forget about the audience, watch me, you'll do just fine. Just play from here.”

Meryl Streep - Roberta Guaspari

“Give you two-hundred of my record? I don't give record - I sell record!”

“Maybe I don't have someone that I thought I loved a lot really, but that's ok because I've got me. And I've got my work. And I've got my music. And I love that - more than anything else on this earth.”
Didi Conn - Laurie Robinson

“I get by because of the people who make a special effort to shop here, mostly young men, who spend all their time looking for deleted Smith singles and original, not rereleased underlined Frank Zappa's albums. Fetish properties are not unlike porn. I'd feel guilty taking their money, if I wasn't... well... kinda one of them.”
John Cusack - Rob Gordon

“- Diana Barrie: You can stop pretending to be asleep, Sidney. It's over.
- Sidney Cochran: I was listening to Beethoven's Ninth. Somewhere on this plane there's a wonderful orchestra.”
Maggie Smith - Diana Barrie
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Cochran

“All right, we'll go to your place and you can show me your organ. But I'm warning you, it'd best be having music coming out of it.”

Sylvester Stallone - Jake Farris

“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)

“- Pearl Kantrowitz: I went to Woodstock.
- Marty Kantrowitz: You went to Woodstock.
- Pearl Kantrowitz: Ummm...
- Marty Kantrowitz: Was it groovy?”
Diane Lane - Pearl Kantrowitz
Liev Schreiber - Marty Kantrowitz

“Sire, only opera can do this. In a play if more than one person speaks at the same time, it's just noise, no one can understand a word. But with opera, with music... with music you can have twenty individuals all talking at the same time, and it's not noise, it's a perfect harmony!”

Tom Hulce - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“It was like for a moment, o my brothers, some great bird had flown into the milk bar. And I felt all the malenky little hairs on my plott standing endwise. And the shivers crawling up like slow, malenky lizards... and then down again. Because I knew what she sang. It was a bit from the glorious 9th by Ludwig van.”
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

“Music is... a dreadful thing.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Ludwig van Beethoven

“Every girl should be given an electric guitar on her 16th birthday.”
Diane Lane - Corinne Burns

“- Glauren: What I need right now is heavy metal music, hard drinking, mayhem, shit you can't offer me right now, okay Ryan?
- Ry: Who are you? You don't even like fast music, you don't even drink.”
Jennifer Rivell - Glauren
Ryan Dunn - Ry

“- Richard Blake: Makes a nice sound, doesn't it, coming across a continent.
- Edward Creighton: It's music.”

Robert Young - Richard Blake
Dean Jagger - Edward Creighton

“- Elvis Presley: When I first met you, I didn't like you at all. I thought you were the most arrogant, selfish, ungrateful little bastard I'd ever met. Then I started to remember how much I was like that at your age.
- Johnny Wolfe: Elvis, man. What happened at the talent show - thanks. I know you did that for me.
- Elvis Presley: Hell no, kid....” (continue)(continue reading)
Keith David - Elvis Presley
Charlie Schlatter - Johnny Wolfe

“- Andy Dufresne: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Forget?
- Andy Dufresne: Forget that... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: What're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“- Shorofsky: One man is not an orchestra.
- Bruno: Who needs orchestras? You can do it all with a keyboard, an amp and enough power.
- Shorofsky: You going to play all by yourself?
- Bruno: You don't need anybody else.
- Shorofsky: That's not music, Martelli. That's masturbation.”
Albert Hague - Shorofsky
Lee Curreri - Bruno

“- Waitress: How was the opera tonight, sir?
- Erik Destler: An inspiration.”
Robert Englund - Erik, The Phantom

“- Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Well this explains the music.
- Igor: It's still warm.”

Gene Wilder - Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
Marty Feldman - Igor

“- Chong: You know what we should invest in? An old age home for hippies. 'Cause, think about it, hippies have been around since the 60's, man, and now there isn't really a hip place for them to go anymore. So, you know, it would be a home where they could smoke all the dope they'd want and listen to all the music they want, you know.
- Cheech:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tommy Chong - Chong
Cheech Marin - Cheech

- Fangora: When you get Lorena alone, put this on. Classical music makes women horny. Just trust me on this one.
- Steven: Thanks. "Best of John Philip Sousa".
- Fangora: Chicks dig it.
Milla Jovovich - Fangora
Adrien Brody - Steven

“- Mina: It makes me so happy to be at the Opera! I love this palace of art and beauty!
- Harker: Johnathan: Oh yes my dear, the Opera is astonishing! The music is frothed with love, hate, sensuality and unbridled passion!... All the things in my life I've managed to suppress so far.”
Amy Yasbeck - Mina Murray
Steven Weber - Harker

“Do you really think I'm punk? Well, that's outrageous! I mean, it's not as cool as new wave, but it's a lot better than pre-teen!”
Shannen Doherty - Maggie Malene

“Only love and music are forever.”
Robert Englund - Erik, The Phantom

“The truth is, I thought it mattered - I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks? Not compared to how people matter.”
Pete Postlethwaite - Danny