Musicians quotes

“I have given the piano back to you. I've had enough. The arrangement is making you a whore, and me wretched. I want you to care for me. But you can't. It's yours, leave. Go on, go.”

Harvey Keitel - Baines

“Son, I've played sick, drunk, divorced, and on the run. Bad Blake hasn't missed a goddamn show in his whole fucking life.”

Jeff Bridges - Bad Blake

“- Sal Amato: Hey, you lose the beat, people miss a step, we want them to dance.
- Eddie Wilson: Lose a beat, miss a step. What are you a moron, Sal?”
Matthew Laurance - Sal Amato
Michael Paré - Eddie Wilson

“- Dirt Merchant: Unbelievable!
- Holly So Tightly: What is?
- Dirt Merchant: You've humped half of my record collection.”

Danny Masterson - Dirt Merchant
Jenna Jameson - Holly So Tightly

You see, back in the '60s, we had smart black articulate black men. Like Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton. These brothers were speaking out, and people were listening. And then, the FBI said, "Oh, no! We can't have that! I know! Let's give the niggers some music by a bunch of mumbling idiots, and sooner or later they'll... (continue)(continue reading)

Ludacris - Anthony

They ask you "what was the high point?" Hall of Fame, selling all those records, pulling Sherry out of the hat, it was all great. But four guys under a street lamp, when it was all still ahead of us, the first time we made that sound, our sound. When everything dropped away and all there was was the music. That was the best
John Lloyd Young - Frankie Valli

“There are no right hand except ours, we must protect the power.”
Gene Simmons - The Demon

“- Lamarr: We've got movie stars in my hotel!
- Faye Dolan: They're musicians, actually.
- Lamarr: Even better!”
Obba Babatundé - Lamarr
Liv Tyler - Faye Dolan

“- Brian: Lady, seven bucks for a used Kenny Loggins record? I'll give you five.
- Record Store Customer: Ugh huh, he autographed it himself.
- Brian: All right, I'll give you four.”
Jim Breuer - Brian
Karen Waddell - Record Store Customer

“- 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

“- James Wright: How many Beatles are there?
- Kyle Davidson: Three... and Ringo.”
River Phoenix - James Wright
Dermot Mulroney - Kyle Davidson

You and I are gonna be the greatest musical manager team since Jessica Simpson and her father. Only you and I get to "mreow" and they can't, 'cause it's illegal. I looked it up.
Anna Faris - Samantha James

“- Nancy B. Artingstall: Simmer down, 50 Cent or I'll mount you again!
- Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson: This day is just getting better and better!
- Nancy B. Artingstall: He wants me!”
Miranda Hart - Nancy B. Artingstall
50 Cent - Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson

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

“- Norma White: Ron, dear, didn't Greenwich-Village-people-types go out with the '60s?
- Samantha: That's it! The name: Village People.
- Village People: Cowboy: Well, that's not a bad idea, uh, that's what we are.”
Barbara Rush - Norma White
Valerie Perrine - Samantha
Randy Jones - Village People: Cowboy

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

“- Darius Stone: Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal.
- Agent Augustus Eugene Gibbons: I like that. Who said it? Jefferson? Patton?
- Darius Stone: Tupac.”
Ice Cube - Darius Stone
Samuel L. Jackson - Agent Augustus Eugene Gibbons

“The Doors? Jim Morrison? He's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Lester Bangs

“Nueva York! New York City! The big apple! Yeah. Rotten to the core as tonight's group will aply demonstrate. They think of themselves as tropical gangsters, but we like to call them: kid Creole and the coconuts!”

James Woods - Jake Wise

“Kurt's brain was just constantly going.”
Kim Cobain - Herself

“Alexander, you're so shy that people just forget. Listen, you've got to come out of your shell or you'll be leading that singing group in Washington Square for the rest of your life and everything else will just pass you by.”
Altovise Davis - Alicia Edwards

“- 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

“- Ray Charles: You're the ones who taught me that making a record is business and find the best business deal that you can. Now seventy-five cents of every dollar and owning my own masters is a pretty damn good deal. Can you match it?
- Ahmet Ertegun: Ray we would love to match it, but we just can't. That's a better deal than Sinatra gets... I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles
Curtis Armstrong - Ahmet Ertegun

“I'll be honest with you. It could have been an ego thing, everybody wants to be up front. But if there is four guys, and you're Ringo? Better I should spend some time with my kids.”
Michael Lomenda - Nick Massi

“- Mookie: Pino, who's your favorite basketball player?
- Pino: Magic Johnson.
- Mookie: And who's your favorite movie star?
- Pino: Eddie Murphy.
- Mookie: And who's your favorite rock star? Prince. You're a Prince freak.
- Pino: Boss. Bruce.”
Spike Lee - Mookie
John Turturro - Pino