Music quotes

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

“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

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

“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

“- 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

“- 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

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

“I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.”
Aaron Paul

“That's what I love about pop music. I don't want people to have to think too hard. I just want them to feel good.”
Raffey Cassidy - Young Celeste

“Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.”
Idris Elba

- One-Round: Are we supposed to make noises with these things? What kind o' noises?
- Louis: Who is she?
- Professor Marcus: Not "noises", One-Round, music!

Danny Green - One-Round (a.k.a. 'Mr. Lawson')
Herbert Lom - Louis (a.k.a. 'Mr. Harvey')
Alec Guinness - Professor Marcus

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

“The music is all that matters. Nothing but the music.”
Anton Walbrook - Boris Lermontov

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

“Oooh, I love legends! Loch Ness, Bigfoot, Bon Jovi... all of 'em!”
Angela Trimbur - Tina

- 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

“You know, rock and roll has been pretty good to me. I think I'll dedicate this one to it.”
Chuck Berry - Himself

Paul McCartney called "God Only Knows" the greatest song ever written.
Brett Davern - Carl Wilson

“- Debora: So when was the last time you hit the road just for fun?
- Baby: Yesterday.
- Debora: I'm jealous. Sometimes all I want to do is head west on 20 in a car I can't afford with a plan I don't have, just me, my music, and the road.”
Lily James - Debora
Ansel Elgort - Baby

“- Fast Freddie: Who are all these people trying to kill you?
- Chili Palmer: I don't know. I'm in the music business now. It could be anybody.”
Anthony J. Ribustello - Fast Freddie
John Travolta - Chili Palmer

- Jerry Heller: What's NWA stand for, anyway? "No Whites Allowed", something like that? [chuckles]
- Eazy-E: No... Niggaz Wit' Attitudes.
Paul Giamatti - Jerry Heller
Jason Mitchell - Eazy-E

“The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.”
Ed Harris - Ludwig van Beethoven

“I think the more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is making tunes. So leave me alone and I'll do it.”
Amy Winehouse - Amy Winehouse