“The only thing I have of value, is this... Jimi Hendrix's tooth, there was a fight in a pub down Oxford Street, someone planked him, and I picked it up. I knew he was a genius even then.”

Stephen Rea - Tony Costello

- Eugene Martone: Listen, I know I'm not Robert Johnson, I...
- Willie Brown: No, you ain’t! You ain't even the beginning of a pimple on the "Late Great" Robert Johnson's ass! You might have a little bit of lightning in you, but you're missing everything else.
Ralph Macchio - Eugene Martone
Joe Seneca - Willie Brown

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

“At night! I think of my piano in its ocean grave, and sometimes of myself floating above it. Down there everything is so still and silent that it lulls me to sleep. It is a weird lullaby and so it is; it is mine.”
Holly Hunter - Ada

“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