Musicians quotes
169 musicians quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Last Tango in Paris
- From the movie: Rock Star
- From the movie: Beautiful Girls
“I don't think you should take that job. Piano players are sexy, salesmen are uncles.”
- From the movie: Some Like It Hot
- From the movie: Canadian Bacon
“Canadians are always dreaming up a lotta ways to ruin our lives. The metric system, for the love of God! Celsius! Neil Young!”
- From the movie: City of Angels
- From the movie: Autumn Sonata
“Chopin was emotional, but not mawkish. Feeling is very far from sentimentality, The preulde tells of pain, not reverie. It hurts, but he doesn't show it.”
- From the movie: Drumline
“Somebody need to give that brother a shot of cognac or something cause for the past four years he bet classic.”
- From the movie: Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park
“- Abner Devereaux: Armageddon is coming to this park tonight.
- Cat Man: We don't work with a second act, Deveroux, besides, Armageddon is a lame group.” - From the movie: Summer of Sam
“- Ruby: I copped that Who's Next album. I was thinkin' about you.
- Richie: Its great, right. Fuckin', those guys are like the godfathers of punk. You know that? You know that song, Baba O'Riley? Its my favorite song. You know who wrote that?
- Ruby: Engelbert Humperdick? What? You don't think I know? Come on, I know. Pete Townsend.
- Richie:...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Commitments
“- Joey 'The Lips' Fagan: Look, I know you're hurting now, but in time you'll realize what you've achieved.
- Jimmy Rabbitte: I've achieved nothing!
- Joey 'The Lips' Fagan: You're missing the point. The success of the band was irrelevant - you raised their expectations of life, you lifted their horizons. Sure we could have been famous and made...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Against All Odds
“I want a complete catalog of Bob Marley. I'm talkin' about everything - all the records. And I want live concerts, everything, alright?”
- From the movie: Tapeheads
“This group is hotter than hot. They've sold more records in Sweden than Abba.”
“Dixie was in a music band called The Beatles. Only they didn't know.”
- From the movie: Backbeat
- From the movie: The Competition
“Ludwig Von Beethoven taught Carl Czerny, who taught Leschetizky, who taught Schnabel, who taught Renaldi, who taught me. And now the sixth pianist in a direct line from Beethoven is standing here staring at me in her Jordan Marsh mix-and-match.”
- From the movie: Brassed Off
“- Phil: I love the band - we all do - but there's other things in life, you know, that's more important.
- Danny: Not in mine there isn't.” - From the movie: Backbeat
“- John Lennon: You don't say much, do you?
- Pete Best: Drummers don't talk. You must have noticed that. Just might as well be deaf and dumb, drummers. When was the last time you heard a drummer say anything? See? You know why, don't you? I'll tell you why. 'Cause nobody ever fuckin' listens.” - From the movie: True Romance
“I always said, if I had to fuck a guy... I mean had to, if my life depended on it... I'd fuck Elvis.”
- From the movie: High Fidelity
- From the movie: A Clockwork Orange
“It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.”
- From the movie: Sliding Doors
Everybody's born knowing all the Beatles lyrics instinctively. They're passed into the fetus subconsciously along with all the amniotic stuff. Fact, they should be called "The Fetals".
- From the movie: The Man with One Red Shoe
“- Cooper: Hulse, I want you to put a special mike on him tonight, one that isolates everything he plays from the rest of the orchestra. Carson, you link it into the GBLX 1000 computer.
- Maddy: The GBLX?
- Cooper: Yeah. That thing'll break any code.
- Maddy: But that's in control of our entire missile defense system!” - From the movie: Empire Records
In the immortal words of "The Doors": "The time to hesitate is through".
- From the movie: The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
“We're better than anyone, aren't we? Except for The Eagles; The Eagles are better than us.”
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