Singing quotes

“If you want wild bird to sing do not put it in cage.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“The problem with the Irish is that they'll sing at the drop of a hat, but ask them to talk and they won't.”
Charles Dance - Soames

“- M.J. Monahan: Oh great, the mouth is here.
- Reuben Goetz: Well, you can end her career, just pop her in the brachial nerve and she's gotta drop the microphone.
- M.J. Monahan: That's a thought.”

Holly Hunter - M.J. Monahan
Dermot Mulroney - Reuben Goetz

“Then I'll write a song and we'll put it in the show, and whenever you sing it, or hear it, or whistle or hum it then you'll know it'll mean that we love one another.”
Ewan McGregor - Christian

“- Lyle Rogers: We're not singers, we're songwriters.
- Marty Freed: So? The Beach Boys weren't songwriters.”
Warren Beatty - Lyle Rogers
Jack Weston - Marty Freed

Don't be scared, 'cuz I'm Funny Steven... with a lampshade on his head. Singing and dancing, for your entertainment, his own rendition of "Singin' in the Rain"!
Tom Hanks - Steven Gold

“Under British law, singing badly is not a crime.”
Oscar James - Miguel

“- Capt. Hans Geering: Rene, your wife has many talents.
- Col. Von Strohm: Singing isn't one of them.”
Sam Kelly - Captain Hans Geering
Richard Marner - Colonel Kurt von Strohm

“O Susanna, oh, won't you fly with me, for I need $10,000 'cause the Sheriff's after me.”

Groucho Marx - J. Cheever Loophole

“You don't know how much I need you. While you're near me, I don't feel blue and when we kiss I know you need me too. I can't believe I found a love that's so pure and true. But it all was bullshit. It was a goddamn joke and when I think of you, Linda, I hope you fucking choke. I hope you're glad with what you've done to me. I lay in bed all day...” (continue)(continue reading)

Adam Sandler - Robbie Hart

“- Fred Collins: They're clamoring for an encore, Mr. Ford. Will you do another song?
- Gene Autry: I'd be glad to.”

Rex King - Fred Collins
Gene Autry - Gene Autry

“We rocket while we're rappin' and we're rockin' and a rollin' and we rocket the sprockets to Spacely. Yeah!”

Ronnie Schell - Rudy 2
George O'Hanlon - George Jetson

“Found a culture, have you Rita? Found a better song to sing? No, you found a different song to sing, and on your lips it's shrill and hollow and tuneless.”
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant

“- Mary Jane: Are you an ornithologist as well?
- Bartell D'Arcy: An amateur. I suppose being a singer makes me susceptible to other creatures that sing. Birds are the most beautiful singers of all. Just think of the widow warbler and the wren.”
Ingrid Craigie - Mary Jane
Frank Patterson - Bartell D'Arcy

“- Jeff: I don't understand. In musicals... why do they start to sing and dance all of a sudden? I mean, I don't suddenly start... to sing and dance.
- Selma: No... You're right, Jeff. You don't.”
Peter Stormare - Jeff
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“- Otis B. Driftwood: Do you know America is waiting to hear him sing?
- Fiorello: Well, he can sing loud, but he can't sing that loud.”

Groucho Marx - Otis B. Driftwood
Chico Marx - Fiorello

“- Carl Denham: Hey, she's got something there.
- Englehorn: It certainly isn't a voice!”

Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
Frank Reicher - Englehorn

“- Samantha: I should have know that you could sing. But when you see someone everyday, you just don't know what they have. I mean, counting out exercise is sort of singing, right?
- Village People: Cowboy: Yeah, I think it is.”
Valerie Perrine - Samantha
Randy Jones - Village People: Cowboy

“- Lira: You have a limp noodle!
- Eddie: It was a war wound!”

Mariangela Melato - Lira
Richard Kiel - Eddie

“Proctor! You have been singing Christmas songs for the entire five hours of this stakeout. And Christmas is a good four months away. If you sing so much as one more note... I will shoot you.”
G.W. Bailey - Captain Harris

“One day when my mother and father were singing together in the forest, a great storm blew up out of nowhere. But so passionate was their singing that they did not notice, nor did they stop as the rain began to fall, and when their voices rose for the final bars of the duet a great bolt of lighting came out of the sky and struck my father so that...” (continue)(continue reading)
Anna Paquin - Flora

“- Chong: I dig it, man. It's good. But you know, while you were singing that, I came up with another song, man.
- Cheech: Oh, yeah?
- Chong: Yeah. It's like the same thing, only different.”
Tommy Chong - Chong
Cheech Marin - Cheech

“- Buckaroo Banzai: You ever thought about joining me full time?
- New Jersey: Whatya mean, you serious, do you have an opening?
- Buckaroo Banzai: Uh huh. Can you sing?
- New Jersey: A little, yeh, I can dance.”
Peter Weller - Buckaroo Banzai
Jeff Goldblum - New Jersey

“We're goin' to the race, we're gonna win first place, and you have an ugly face!”

Ross Bagley - Buckwheat

“- Eddie Valiant: You crazy rabbit! I'm out there risking my neck for you, and what are you doing? Singing and dancing!
- Roger Rabbit: But I'm a toon. Toons are supposed to make people laugh.”
Bob Hoskins - Eddie Valiant
Charles Fleischer - Roger Rabbit