Music quotes

“Malcolm, Jib and Diggy used to be in the school marching band, but quit in protest after refusing to play the Harlem Shake.”
Forest Whitaker - Narrator

“My problem is the repetitiveness. Y'know... wine, women, and whiteline fever, over and over. Whereas, progressive is existential. You got these chromatic melodies, right? To use for, like, a springboard into all kinds of experiments. Even the backbeat is full of nuances. You know that there's a central rhythmic idea going on, but you're never...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mark Arnott - Jeff

“- Christine Day: Are you going to kill me now, too?
- Erik Destler: Everyone dies... I only choose the time and place for a few.
- Christine Day: When do you choose for me?
- Erik Destler: This is either a wedding march or a funeral mass. You decide which.”
Jill Schoelen - Christine Day
Robert Englund - Erik, The Phantom

“- Diane: Why don't you take me home?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: I go to law school now. I have to go home and study. The only reason I came by here, is because I appreciate the fine music.
- Diane: I thought you worked in a Beauty Parlor?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: Yeah, I do - during the day.”
Kelle Kipp - Diane
Mickey Rourke - Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell

Over the last ten years, this bloody government has systematically destroyed an entire industry. Our industry. And not just our industry - our communities, our homes, our lives. All in the name of "progress".
Pete Postlethwaite - Danny

“Rocking a party, step one. So it's the DJ's job to get the crowd out of their heads, and into their bodies. So in order to do that, you need, at the very least a caveman's sense of rhythm, a cursory knowledge of mathematics, and the broad strokes of ninth grade biology.”
Zac Efron - Cole

“You got to love music more than you love food. More than life. More than yourself.”
Robin Williams - Maxwell 'Wizard' Wallace

“So I downloaded a couple thousand songs off the internet! Who hasn't?”
Anthony Anderson - Glen

“You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe, a harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.”
Robin Williams - Maxwell 'Wizard' Wallace

“Music is all that matters. One hour on stage makes up for the other 23.”
Joan Jett - Patti Rasnick

“- Bullwinkle: What kind of music is this?
- Karen Sympathy: Hip-hop.
- Bullwinkle: Ok, but I still want to know what kind of music this is.”

Keith Scott - Bullwinkle
Piper Perabo - Karen Sympathy

“Detroit sound? What’s that, the cries of people being mugged?”
Debbie Harry - Velma Von Tussle

“- Principal Helen Jacobs: Next week, I have a meeting with the school board. And there are people in this community who believe that rock and roll is a message sent from the devil himself. Now when that issue comes up, what can I tell them?
- Glenn Holland: Mrs. Jacobs, you tell them that I am teaching music, and that I will use anything from...” (continue)(continue reading)
Olympia Dukakis - Principal Helen Jacobs
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Glenn Holland

“Hey, I'm not dumb! You don't even know me and you call me dumb. Wanna know what's dumb? The last eight covers in a row you did on Elvis in the army, with the badges? That's dumb. And that's boring.”

Ray Sharkey - Vincent Vacarri

“I heard the music of true forgiveness filling the theater, conferring on all who sat there, perfect absolution. God was singing through this little man to all the world, unstoppable, making my defeat more bitter with every passing bar.”

F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“It's weird that someone that studies rocks is really into Jesus.”
Greta Gerwig - Brooke

“Everyone has a little darkness in them. They may not like it. They don't know about it, but it's there. And I'm talking about things like anger, misery, sorrow, shame. And they hear it. I show it to them. And they don't have to take it home.”
Tom Hiddleston - Hank Williams

“I do not like rock-and-roll music. This is too loud! I like folk music, soft, nice music, huh? Polka, waltz, anything!”
John Sarkisian - Russian General

“- Everett: What'd the devil give you for your soul, Tommy?
- Tommy Johnson: Well, he taught me to play this here guitar real good.
- Delmar O'Donnell: Oh son, for that you sold your everlasting soul?
- Tommy Johnson: Well, I wasn't usin' it.”
George Clooney - Everett
Chris Thomas King - Tommy Johnson
Tim Blake Nelson - Delmar O'Donnell

“Listen to them - the children of the night. What sad music they make!”
Frank Langella - Dracula

“- Eva: Did they just turn the music louder?
- Albert: No, I think you just got older.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Eva
James Gandolfini - Albert

“- Quentin: We've been to plenty of parties.
- Ben: No! No!
- Radar: If there's a tuba there, it's not a party.”
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff - Quentin
Austin Abrams - Ben
Justice Smith - Radar

“- Ice Cube: Motherfuckers tryin' to tell us what the fuck we can't say. This N.W.A.!
- Audience: [cheers]
- Ice Cube: We do what the fuck we wanna do. We say what the fuck we wanna say! So everybody, put them middle fingers high in the sky.”

O'Shea Jackson Jr. - Ice Cube

“Tell Commander Lewis, disco sucks.”

Matt Damon - Mark Watnay

“- James Brennan: Jesus Fucking Christ! They play this song like 20 times a day!
- Joel: Fucking sadists. Fucking sadists!”

Jesse Eisenberg - James Brennan
Martin Starr - Joel