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

“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

“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

Remember when Paul McCartney wrote the song "Michelle" and then he only wrote the first part, Annie said. And then he gave that part to John Lennon, and he wrote the part that said, "I love you, I love you, I love you." And Annie said that it wouldn't have been the same song without that... and that's why the whole world cried when the Beatles... (continue)(continue reading)
Sean Penn - Sam Dawson

“Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it secretly possess you.”
Gerard Butler - The Phantom

“- 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

“- Enid: We need to find a place where you can go to meet women who share your interests.
- Seymour: Well, maybe I don't want to meet someone who shares my interests. I hate my interests.
- Enid: Yeah, yeah, just list your five main interests in order of importance.
- Seymour: Uh... I'd have to put traditional jazz, blues and then ragtime at the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Thora Birch - Enid
Steve Buscemi - Seymour

“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

“Listen. Can you hear it? The music. I can hear it everywhere. In the wind, in the air, in the light. It's all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do is listen.”
Freddie Highmore - August Rush

“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

“- 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

“Look man, you can listen to Jimi but you can't hear him. There's a difference man. Just because you're listening to him doesn't mean you're hearing him.”

Wesley Snipes - Sidney Deane