Songs quotes

“This isn't the last song, there's no violin, the choir is quiet, and no one takes a spin, this is the next to last song, and that's all...”

Björk - Selma Jezkova

- Todd: I love this song.
[Nicky plays the album backwards,"I command you, in the name of Lucifer, to spill the blood of the innocent..."]
- Peter: Oh my God, Chicago kicks ass!
Allen Covert - Todd
Peter Dante - Peter

You're gonna be in my next song. It's called "RoboSteckler". It's about a cop who met his worst nightmare: a nigga with enough political juice to squash your ass like a stinkbug! You gonna be famous, fucker!
Glenn Plummer - Jeriko One

“- Rex: Thematically speaking, we will be looking at Christmas carols as they relate to specific traditions...
- Herb: Yeah! Songs about Christmas trees, and stacks of gifts, reindeer, and jingling bells, holiday ballet, Santa Claus, universal joy, and Christmas snacks!
- Rex: There is not a carol about snacks.”
Johnny Counterfit - Rex
Tim Conner - Herb

“I had the strangest dream. I dreamt that some psychopath was trying to break the two of you up. Luckily, I woke up and I see that the world is just as it should be. For my best friend has won the best woman. I didn't buy you a gift. But this is on loan until you two find your song.”

Julia Roberts - Julianne Potter

“Now Sinatra will never record it.”

Anthony Holland - Paul Dann

George Michael is all about the ladies. "I want your sex". Does that sound like he's singing to a guy?
Ben Affleck - Ollie Trinke

Same thing every spring. "Tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet! Tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet!" Love's sweet song. Pain in the pinfeathers, I call it!
Will Wright - Friend Owl

“Something good is bound to happen when love is in your heart | For love and human kindness is where good things always start | There's goodness in your neighbor | There's goodness close at hand | Oh let's spread love and kindness throughout all this blessed land!”
Jim Dale - Eli Bloodshy

“- Michelle Burroughs: Watch them fly... away.
- Kevin Pickford: Hey, you guys know what that song is about? Its about the aliens. We're the aliens man, we're the savages. We're the savages man.”
Milla Jovovich - Michelle
Shawn Andrews - Kevin Pickford

“- Max Grabelski: Alright! Knock it off! What is that? We run and dance and sing and play?
- Gordy: My mom kinda wrote the words.
- Max Grabelski: Well they suck! Okay?”
Daniel Stern - Max Grabelski
Blake Bashoff - Gordy

“- Bad Blake: You know that song? Hmmm?
- Jean Craddock: I can't remember who did it.
- Bad Blake: That's the way it is with good ones, you're sure you've heard them before.”

Jeff Bridges - Bad Blake
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Jean Craddock

“How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong, though they once sounded right and rare? When the notes are sour, where is the power you once had to ignite the air?”
Adam Pascal - Roger Davis

“- Charlie: Sit down! I love that song! How long have you two been doing this act?
- Maverick: Oh, since uh...
- Charlie: Puberty?
- Maverick: Right, puberty.”

Kelly McGillis - Charlie
Tom Cruise - Maverick

- Robbie: I wrote a song about you.
- Georgia Nicolson: Really?
- Robbie: Yeah. It's called "Bitch in Uniform".
Aaron Taylor-Johnson - Robbie
Georgia Groome - Georgia Nicolson

“- Guy: [a song finishes] Well, what do you think? Do you like it? It's just a demo, you know...
- Guy's Dad: It's fucking brilliant.
- Guy: Really?
- Guy's Dad: Fantastic stuff. That'll be a hit, no question.”
Glen Hansard - Guy
Bill Hodnett - Guy's Dad

“It's still not finished yet. I'm hearing... more Aboriginal percussionists. And I want an army of digeridoos. Fifty thousand digeridoos!”

John C. Reilly - Dewey Cox

“- Girl: How come you don't play during daytime? I see you here everyday.
- Guy: During the daytime people would want to hear songs that they know, just songs that they recognize. I play these song at night or I wouldn't make any money. People wouldn't listen.”
Markéta Irglová - Girl
Glen Hansard - Guy

“You alone can make my song take flight.”
Gerard Butler - The Phantom

“- Kyle Davidson: Sometimes you hear a song on the radio and it's just the song you want to hear right then, and then it's over and you're just glad you heard it.
- Miranda Presley: And I'm like that song?
- Kyle Davidson: No, you're nothing like that song. You're like if that was the only song in the world that I could hear for the rest of my...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dermot Mulroney - Kyle Davidson
Samantha Mathis - Miranda Presley

“- Beowulf: This is not battle, Wiglaf. This is slaughter.
- Wiglaf: The Frisians want to make themselves heroes, my lord. They want the bards to sing of their deeds.
- Beowulf: It's going to be a short song.”
Ray Winstone - Beowulf
Brendan Gleeson - Wiglaf

- Charles: That's a nice ribbon in your hair.
- Clara: I told the nurse that it was like the song. "Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree".
John Heard - Charles
Gloria Grahame - Clara

“- George: You like her, don't you?
- Simone: Of course I like her.
- George: Yeah, but you like her in that special way. In the songs.”
Bob Hoskins - George
Cathy Tyson - Simone

“- Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: There's this one song that he taught me, it made me feel happy and sad all at the same time.
- Slick: The best ones do.”
Katee Sackhoff - Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace
Roark Critchlow - Slick

“- Roger: [singing] Ti tum ti ta ti, ta tum ti ta tum.
- Roger: Do you like my new song?
- Anita: Ta tum ti ta tum. Such clever lyrics.
- Roger: Melody first, my dear, and then the lyrics.”
Ben Wright - Roger
Lisa Davis - Anita