Music quotes

“Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!”
Richard Harris - Albus Dumbledore

“- Tony Lip: I dunno. Personally I think if you stuck to the classic stuff it would've been a big mistake.
- Dr. Donald Shirley: A mistake? Performing the music I trained my entire life to play?
- Tony Lip: Trained? What are you, a seal? People love what you do! Anyone can sound like Beethoven or Joe Pan or them other guys you said. But your...” (continue)(continue reading)
Viggo Mortensen - Tony Lip
Mahershala Ali - Dr. Donald Shirley

“I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.”
Jonathan Pryce

“I'm just a musical prostitute.”
Rami Malek - Freddie Mercury

- Miles Harding: I can't play that for her. "I want to squeeze you, lick you, pucker up and kiss you"? You make her sound like a lemon!
- Edgar: But Miles, they rhyme!

Lenny von Dohlen - Miles Harding
Bud Cort - Edgar

“One band, one sound.”

“That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.”
Harry Styles

- Devon Miles: I can't really read music.
- Mr. Wade: Oh, that's all right, son. Some people can't read the sign that says "toilet". Doesn't mean they don't know how to use it.
Nick Cannon - Devon Miles
J. Anthony Brown - Mr. Wade

“I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.”
Frankie Avalon

“So young, so angry. Damn that rap music!”
Jacob Vargas - Pepito

“Sounds have soul. Build them from scratch. Find new ones. Get your head out of that laptop and start listening to what the world's trying to tell you.”
Wes Bentley - James

“Walk away now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo-songs of violence-laden gangsta-rap, acid pop, and simpering, saccharine, soulless slush.”

Dan Aykroyd - Elwood Blues

“- Jason Alexander: Damn, it's quiet out here! I should've brought my radio.
- Lyric: No, it's not quiet. It's full of music. Just listen.”

Allen Payne - Jason Alexander
Jada Pinkett Smith - Lyric

“Playing the drums is like making love. You can't be looking down seeing what’s going on trying to get the flow right.”
Leonard Roberts - Sean Taylor

“Well, if I'm going to hell, I'm going there playing the piano.”
Dennis Quaid - Jerry Lee Lewis

“- Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis: So, what is the difference between rap and hip-hop?
- Sidney 'Syd' Shaw: It's simple. It's like the difference between saying you love somebody and being in love with somebody. Rap is just a word.”
Taye Diggs - Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis
Sanaa Lathan - Sidney 'Syd' Shaw

“On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse. Bassoons and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox. And then suddenly, high above it, an oboe. A single note, hanging there, unwavering. Until a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This...” (continue)(continue reading)

F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“- The Kid: I ain't got time for your bullshit, Billy. What do you want?
- Billy: This stage is no place for your personal shit, man!
- The Kid: That's life, man.
- Billy: Life, my ass, motherfucker! This is a business, and you too far gone to see that yet! I told you before, you're not packin' them in like you used to. No one digs your music but...” (continue)(continue reading)
Prince - The Kid
Billy Sparks - Billy

“- Blue Bell the Troll: They are called 'The Brothers Gibb'.
- Blabberwort: And the song: it concerns a deadly fever that only strikes on Saturdays.”

Jeremiah Birkett - Blue Bell the Troll
Dawnn Lewis - Blabberwort the Troll

“The blues ain't nothing but a good man feeling bad, thinking about the woman he once was with.”
Joe Seneca - Willie Brown

“If it's got hair, I can ride it. If it's got a beat, I can dance to it.”
Woody Harrelson - Pepper Lewis

“That guy was lost in the music. He was in it, and he took the rest of us with him. And I wanted to learn how to talk like that. That’s when I knew I was born to play.”
Jamie Foxx - Joe

“Music is all I think about. From the moment I wake up in the morning to the moment I fall asleep at night.”
Jamie Foxx - Joe

“The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.”
Riz Ahmed

“What's interesting about the U.K. is that it celebrates an alternative voice. It's up for telling new stories.”
Riz Ahmed