Musicians quotes

“- John Reid: So, tell me. What makes Queen any different from all of the other wannabe rockstars I meet?
- Freddie Mercury: Tell you what it is, Mr. Reid. Now we're four misfits who don't belong together, we're playing for the other misfits. They're the outcasts, right at the back of the room. We're pretty sure they don't belong either. We...” (continue)(continue reading)
Aidan Gillen - John Reid
Rami Malek - Freddie Mercury

“- 'Joliet' Jake Blues: They're not the kinda guys who write letters. You were outside, I was inside. You were supposed to keep in touch with the band. I kept asking you if we were gonna play again.
- Elwood Blues: Well, what was I gonna do? Take away your only hope? Take away the very thing that kept you going in there? I took the liberty of...” (continue)(continue reading)

John Belushi - Joliet' Jake Blues
Dan Aykroyd - Elwood Blues

“- Dean Kansky: British women do not age well. Eight years ago she was a luscious treat, you know, she probably looked like, you know, Baby Spice, now she could look like...
- Jonathan Trager: Old Spice.”
Jeremy Piven - Dean Kansky
John Cusack - Jonathan Trager

“- Felicity Shagwell: I want to see what happens in the 70s and 80s.
- Austin: The 70s and the 80s? You're not missing anything, believe me. I've looked into it. There's a gas shortage and A Flock of Seagulls. That's about it.”
Heather Graham - Felicity Shagwell
Mike Myers - Austin Powers

“- Jerome: That was fucked up, what you did, man. Morris doesn't like it, and I don't like it either.
- The Kid: I don't care.
- Jerome: It's obvious you don't have what it takes to get to the top.”

Jerome Benton - Jerome
Prince - The Kid

“I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.”
Tim Roth

“I'm a bad guy because I sing some rock-and-roll songs, and who's a bigger influence, the President or Marilyn Manson? I'd like to think me, but I'm going to go with the President.”
Marilyn Manson - Himself

“I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.”
Jim Jarmusch

Remember when Paul McCartney wrote the song "Michelle" and then he only wrote the first part, Annie said. And then he gave that part to John Lennon, and he wrote the part that said, "I love you, I love you, I love you." And Annie said that it wouldn't have been the same song without that... and that's why the whole world cried when the Beatles... (continue)(continue reading)
Sean Penn - Sam Dawson

“- Nicky Cerone: What is that? Mozart?
- Belinda Capuletti: Scales.
- Nicky Cerone: Never heard of him.”

Joe Pesci - Nicky Cerone
Lili Haydn - Belinda Capuletti

“I mean Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that anybody liked. They left that to the BeeGees.”
Mike Myers - Wayne Campbell

“I've got nothing against Jon Bon Jovi. The man has had two great hairstyles in the last ten years, which is an achievement not to be sniffed at.”
Peter MacNicol - David Langley

“At night! I think of my piano in its ocean grave, and sometimes of myself floating above it. Down there everything is so still and silent that it lulls me to sleep. It is a weird lullaby and so it is; it is mine.”
Holly Hunter - Ada

- Eugene Martone: I'm a blues man.
- Willie Brown: A blues man?
- Willie Brown: Where you from, boy?
- Eugene Martone: Well, I was born in Long Island.
- Willie Brown: Oh, Long Island aw shit, this is rich! Long Island: the famous “breeding ground” for blues men!
Ralph Macchio - Eugene Martone
Joe Seneca - Willie Brown

“We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass.”
Jack Black On Jennifer Lopez

“Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever.”
Richard Lester

“Every band puts out at least one pussy song so they can find out who the faggots are!”
Bradford Tatum - Hubbs

“I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm... unemployed at the moment.”
Oscar Levant - Adam Cook

“- Bernie Taupin: Don't you want to just sing without this ridiculous paraphernalia?
- Elton John: People don't pay to see Reg Dwight! They pay to see Elton John!”
Jamie Bell - Bernie Taupin
Taron Egerton - Elton John

“I'm not the man they think I am at home. Oh no no no, I'm a rocketman!”
Taron Egerton - Elton John

“- Richard M. Nixon: Maybe I should add the Beatles to my enemies list.
- Elvis Presley: You have an enemies list, sir?
- Richard M. Nixon: No.”
Bob Gunton - Richard M. Nixon
Rick Peters - Elvis Presley

“- Elton John: Now, go off and save the world.
- Harry Hart: If I save the world, can I have two tickets to your next concert?
- Elton John: Darling, if you save the world, you can have a backstage pass.”
Sir Elton John - Himself
Colin Firth - Harry Hart

“The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.”
Ed Harris - Ludwig van Beethoven

- Eugene Martone: Listen, I know I'm not Robert Johnson, I...
- Willie Brown: No, you ain’t! You ain't even the beginning of a pimple on the "Late Great" Robert Johnson's ass! You might have a little bit of lightning in you, but you're missing everything else.
Ralph Macchio - Eugene Martone
Joe Seneca - Willie Brown

“- Wladyslaw Szpilman: You've got to give me something to do.
- Yehuda: You're an artist, Wladek. You do enough.
- Wladyslaw Szpilman: I want to help. I want to do something.
- Yehuda: You're too well known, Wladek. And you know what? You musicians don't make good conspirators. You're too... too... musical!”
Adrien Brody - Wladyslaw Szpilman
Paul Bradley - Yehuda