Music quotes

“I service society by rocking, ok? I'm out there on the front lines liberating people with my music!”
Jack Black - Dewey Finn

“- Whitney: That band is playing the strangest music. Who hired them?
- Bob: You did, sweetums.”
Andrea Paige Wilson - Whitney
Ben Cleaveland - Bob

“- John Lennon: Listen, you! If you wanna fight someone, fight me! If you don't wanna fight, then listen to the fucking band. If you don't want to listen to the fucking band, fuck off and choke to death. Do you understand me? Do you get my meaning, mate?
- Pimp: I can't fight you. You are wearing a dress.”

Ian Hart - John Lennon
Gertan Klauber - Pimp

“- Ed: You're a musician?
- Fred Madison: Yeah.
- Al: What's your axe?
- Fred Madison: Tenor. Tenor saxophone. Do you...
- Al: ...Tone deaf.”
Louis Eppolito - Ed
Bill Pullman - Fred Madison
John Roselius - Al

- Grandma: Why are your pants so low?
- Tyler: I rap.
- Daughter: It's a form of modern poetry... if you give him a topic, he'll extemporaneously rhyme on the subject. His stage nom de plume is "T-Diamond Stylus." Go ahead, Nana, give him anything!
Deanna Dunagan - Nana
Ed Oxenbould - Tyler
Olivia DeJonge - Becca

“We're not surfers, we never have been, and real surfers don't dig our music anyway!”

Paul Dano - Young Brian

“I am definitely going to die up here ... if I have to listen to any more god-awful disco music.”
Matt Damon - Mark Watnay

- Simon Green: Why can't black people listen to country music?
- Keisha Jones: Why?
- Simon Green: Because every time they say "hoe-down" they think their sister got shot!
Ashton Kutcher - Simon Green
Kellee Stewart - Keisha Jones

“- Jack Morell: Ya see, sir, my father is Jewish and my mom, she's Italian Catholic, so, got all the bases covered. Speaking of bases, when the other kids were following the baseball charts I was following the pop charts...
- Steve Waits: I think I've heard that before. Why don't you save that for the liner notes on the album.”
Steve Guttenberg - Jack Morell
Paul Sand - Steve Waits

“- Sophie: Hey, you know, this party is looking a little stiff, Cole.
- Cole: So what are you saying? I need to amp it up?
- Sophie: You can try, but this crowd doesn't dance before Midnight.”
Emily Ratajkowski - Sophie
Zac Efron - Cole

“- Lyle: I'm getting a NAD T770 digital decoder with 70-watt amps and Burr-Brown DACs.
- Left Ear: [confused] Yeah...
- Lyle: It's a big stereo. Speakers so loud, they blow women's clothes off!
- Handsome Rob: Now you're talking!”
Seth Green - Lyle
Jason Statham - Left Ear
Jason Statham - Handsome Rob

Mok's promise to rewrite rock history was prematurely and tragically interrupted last night when an overwhelming power surge totally destroyed Carnage Hall and blacked out the entire city. Survivors described the destruction as "evil," "spooky," and "wow, bad karma, man".

“Now, I'm about to do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the late '90s.”
Ryan Reynolds - Deadpool

“- Lucas: Rap... metal... rap... metal... And Whitney Houston.
- Warren: It's for my girlfriend, okay?
- Lucas: Sure it is. You know, someone like you needs to diminish their criminal impulses, not magnify them. Maybe some jazz or some classical.”

Rory Cochrane - Lucas
Brendan Sexton III - Warren

“We dance alone. That's why we only play electronic music.”
Léa Seydoux - Loner Leader

“- Aldous Snow: I found one track that I quite liked. So I checked what it was, and it was actually one of yours, and it kind of reminded me of a dark, gothic Neil Diamond. It's great.
- Peter Bretter: That's, like, exactly what I'm going for.
- Aldous Snow: Right, yeah.
- Peter Bretter: [clearly disappointed] Fuck you're cool! It's so hard to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Russell Brand - Aldous Snow
Jason Segel - Peter Bretter

“I gave up giving a damn about what other people think a long time ago... I write what I write and I sing what I sing cause that's what I do.”
Tom Hiddleston - Hank Williams

- Murry Wilson: Frankly, if you really want to know, I don't care for it. It's too wishy-washy. "If you leave me, why leave me? Life will go on. Why go on living?" It's not like a Beach Boys song. Your brothers are going to hate it.
- Brian: [devastated] It's a love song.
- Murry Wilson: It's a suicide note.

Bill Camp - Murry Wilson
Paul Dano - Young Brian

“Tony and I think that if you close your eyes you can see a place or something that's happening. It's like being blind but because you're blind you can see more. Don't you think it's a spiritual kind of thing?”

Paul Dano - Young Brian

- Cal Naughton Jr.: Hey, when you have the stereo and TV on, how do you change the volume on the stereo?
- Ricky Bobby: "If you have the stereo on" Why do you have the stereo on while you're watching TV?
- Cal Naughton Jr.: 'Cause I like to party.
John C. Reilly - Cal Naughton Jr.
Will Ferrell - Ricky Bobby

“- Ike: I'm not dumb!
- Addley: You're dumb, you like punk!”
Frederick Coffin - Ike
Michael McCleery - Addley

“I never complain! How am I complaining? When do I ever complain about you practicing the violin at three in the morning, or your mess, your general lack of hygiene, or the fact that you steal my clothes?”

Jude Law - Dr. Watson

“- Elwood Blues: What kind of music do you usually have here?
- Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western.”
Dan Aykroyd - Elwood Blues
Sheilah Wells - Claire

“- Irene Terwilliger: Really, Luke! That's no way to treat Mr. Liszt. Stop that! Stop it, stop it! Who taught you to play like that? I demand to know. Where on earth did you learn to play such a thing?
- Emmett Smith: I taught him that... when you weren't looking!”

Susan Willis - Irene Terwilliger
Gerry Black - Emmett Smith

What do you want, "Non-Rocker"? This line is reserved for "Rockers Only", so I can't really talk to you right now!

Jack Black - JB