Songs quotes

“Oh, just write the fucking songs, Bernie. Let me handle the rest!”
Taron Egerton - Elton John

“I've been writing songs since I was a kid, but my arrangements sound like some cheesy Saturday morning cartoon or something.”
Hilary Duff - Teresa 'Terri' Fletcher

“Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb. Mary had a little lamb her hair was white as snow! And every which way that Mary went, the lamb was right behind her. It followed her to work one day, work one day, work one day. It followed her to work one day… and Mary lost her job!”
Joe Pantoliano - Norby

“- Frances: You know, ever since I sang that song it's been haunting me.
- Rag Time Kelly: It should haunt you: you murdered it.”
Grace La Rue - Frances
Fuzzy Knight - Rag Time Kelly

- Milt Shaw: He's filed a lawsuit, Ray, and it's more than a fine. This guy's got juice, he can get you barred from ever playing "Georgia" again. But he's willing to drop the suit if you make up the gig.
- Ray Charles: Not if it's segregated.
David Krumholtz - Milt Shaw
Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles

“- Loretta Lynn: I done wrote me a song, Betty Sue. Your mama dadgome songwriter now.
- Betty Sue Lynn: That's a nice song, mama.
- Loretta Lynn: Thank you, baby.”

Sissy Spacek - Loretta Lynn
Sissy Lucas - Betty Sue Lynn

Man, you should see this song I'm listening to. It's called "Don't Bogart That Joint, My Friend”.
Jon Abrahams - Drugs Delaney

“I'm a slave to rock 'n' roll. I am searching for the perfect song... the perfect sound that will make you wanna live forever.”
Tom Cruise - Stacee Jaxx

- Record Producer: You have failed conclusively! It's over! And there is nothing that you can do, here in this room... that can turn that around. Nothing you can do that can make up for what you just did to "That's Amore".
- Dewey Cox: [quietly] Well, my mother liked it a whole lot.
- Record Producer: Your mother was wrong!

John Michael Higgins - Record Producer
John C. Reilly - Dewey Cox

Demonic beasts. Whatever happened to the good old simple love song? "I love you". That's what good words use. Nowadays they have to write some sickness. It's just absoultely sick and bizarre, and I'm going to do my upmost best to try and stop it now.
Ozzy Osbourne - Rev. Aaron Gilstrom

“- Linda Lue Linden: You know, Kyle Davidson, there's something you never knew about me.
- Kyle Davidson: What's that?
- Linda Lue Linden: You could have had me for a song.”

Sandra Bullock - Linda Lue Linden
Dermot Mulroney - Kyle Davidson

“What I want is songs that echo. The stuff we're doing now is like somebody's bedsheets. Spread 'em out, soil 'em, ship 'em out to laundry, you know?”
Michael Paré - Eddie Wilson

“I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.”
Zooey Deschanel

“- Tommy Gnosis: What do you think? Do you think love lasts forever?
- Hedwig: No, but this song does.”

Michael Pitt - Tommy Gnosis
John Cameron Mitchell - Hedwig

“The hills have gone gay.”

Abraham Benrubi - Dennis

- Preacher: [referring to Dewey Cox's song] You think we don't know what you're talking about when you say "take my hand?".
- Dewey Cox: What do you mean? It's about holding hands.
- Pa Cox: You watch your mouth.
- Preacher: You know who's got hands? The devil. And he uses them for holding.
Rance Howard - Preacher
John C. Reilly - Dewey Cox
Raymond J. Barry - Pa Cox

“Shut the fuck up. It's Christmastime. I'm gonna sing you a little song.”

Bette Midler - Dixie Leonard

- George Webber: If you were dancing with your wife, or girlfriend you knew in high school, and you said to her: "Darling, they're playing our song", do you know what they'd be playing?
- Donald: What?
- George Webber: Why Don't We Do It In The Road. Fuckin' hell kind of era is that?
Dudley Moore - George Webber
Brian Dennehy - Donald

“It's a song, you green-blooded Vulcan! The words aren't important. What's important is that you have fun singing it!”

DeForest Kelley - McCoy

“- Waterfront Bartender: I don't know why you want to waste so much time writing those sappy love songs when no-one wants to hear 'em. Least of all, the woman who dumped your sorry ass.
- Malik Brody: Thank you Doctor! I feel so much better now!
- Waterfront Bartender: The truth hurts, baby.”
Joe Unger - Waterfront Bartender
Kadeem Hardison - Malik Brody

“- George Peters: First time I had sex I was 18 years old. We were in the back seat of a parked 1938 Dodge Sedan. Right in the middle of it, we were rear-ended.
- Doris: Oh, and you didn't have any insurance?
- George Peters: No. That's not exactly what I mean. I mean, look... take last night. Do you know what the radio was playing while we were...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alan Alda - George Peters
Ellen Burstyn - Doris

“- Kyle Davidson: I'm going to go write some more of those good songs.
- Miranda Presley: Yeah, write a good one for me.
- Kyle Davidson: I write them about you.”
Dermot Mulroney - Kyle Davidson
Samantha Mathis - Miranda Presley

- Felix Woods: You know that song, "Pocketful of Dreams"?
- Band Member: Down here we call it "Pocketful of Ass".
Colin Hanks - Felix Woods
Jack Thomas Babcock - Love Scud Boy Band Member #1

“If it was never new, and it never gets old, then it's a folk song.”
Oscar Isaac - Llewyn Davis

“- Kirk Lazarus: Took a whole lotta tryin' just to get up that hill. Now we're up in the big leagues, gettin' our turn at bat. As long as we live, it's you and me, baby...
- Alpa Chino - Hot LZ: [pulling away] That's the theme song to The Jeffersons. Man, you really need help.
- Kirk Lazarus: Just because it's a theme song don't mean it's not true.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Kirk Lazarus
Brandon T. Jackson - Alpa Chino - Hot LZ