Music quotes

“The blues ain't nothing but a good man feeling bad, thinking about the woman he once was with.”
Joe Seneca - Willie Brown

“Look man, you can listen to Jimi but you can't hear him. There's a difference man. Just because you're listening to him doesn't mean you're hearing him.”

Wesley Snipes - Sidney Deane

- Yellowjacket: I'm gonna disintegrate you!
- Siri: Playing "Disintegration" by the Cure.
Corey Stoll - Yellowjacket

“If it's got hair, I can ride it. If it's got a beat, I can dance to it.”
Woody Harrelson - Pepper Lewis

“Evan-What style would you say you were?
Conor-I'm a futurist.
Evan-Epic. See you in the future, then.”
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo - Conor
Art Campion - Evan

“It's the law of physics. Whenever there's this much gay in one room, Liza manifests.”
Cynthia Nixon - Miranda Hobbes

“Songs are like hugs that mouths give to ears!”
Kristen Schaal - Mabel Pines

“When the dance floor calls, you gotta answer. ”
Moosa Mostafa - Eugene Ottinger

“I love it here. You can sing as loud as you want. That dude wails away on the organ. That dude up there tells stories. It's almost a religious experience!”

Tommy Chong - Leo

All the Irish need to survive is a phone, a Guinness and the sheet music to "Danny Boy".
Josie Walker - Auntie Violet

Conor-What about "La Vie"?
Darren-What's that mean?
Conor-It's French for "The Life."
Garry-What's French for, uh, "That's not gonna be the name of the band"?
Conor-"Ce n'est pas le nom du groupe."
Garry-There you go.
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo - Conor
Ben Carolan - Darren
Karl Rice - Garry

“It was at the moment that Elvis the Man was sacrificed and Elvis the God was born. He had no idea what he had just done.”
Tom Hanks - Colonel Tom Parker

“Now, I don't know nothing about music. But I could see in that girl's eyes, he was a taste of forbidden fruit. She could have eaten him alive!”

Tom Hanks - Colonel Tom Parker

“Your music’s bad and you should feel bad!”
Billy West - Dr. Zoidberg

“Well, I'm going to be a famous jazz musician. I've got it all figured out. I'll be unappreciated in my own country, but my gutsy blues stylings will electrify the French. I'll avoid the horrors of drug abuse, but I do plan to have several torrid love affairs, and I may or may not die young. I haven't decided.”
Yeardley Smith - Lisa Simpson

“Nothing you say can upset us. We're the MTV generation.”
Nancy Cartwright - Bart Simpson

“An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Robert Ford

“Sandy-So, at this concert tonight, anyone there going to be doing drugs?
Seth-I hope so. Otherwise it's a lame-ass concert.”
Peter Gallagher - Sandy Cohen
Adam Brody - Seth Cohen

“Musicians for the most part are monosyllabic teenagers who really don't have a whole lot to say.”
Mark Ruffalo - Dan

“Dan: That's some song you got there. I promise you it could be a big hit. Plus you're beautiful.
Gretta: I'm sorry, what's beauty got to do with anything?
Dan: Jesus, you're tricky, aren't you?”
Keira Knightley - Gretta
Mark Ruffalo - Dan

“You can tell a lot about a person by what's on their playlist.”
Mark Ruffalo - Dan

“That's what I love about music. One of the most banal scenes is suddenly invested with so much meaning! All these banalities - They're suddenly turned into these... these beautiful, effervescent pearls. From Music.”
Mark Ruffalo - Dan

“ I think being the greatest musician of the 20th century is anybody's idea of success.”
Miles Teller - Andrew

“The blues help you get out of bed in the morning. You get up knowing you ain't alone. There's something else in the world. Something's has been added by that song.”
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey

“White folk don't understand about the blues. They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.”
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey