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

“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

“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

“- 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

“- Philip Lacasse: Have you ever listened to opera?
- Dell Scott: Yeah. Opera's really big in prison. You can hardly get a seat on opera night.”
Bryan Cranston - Philip Lacasse
Kevin Hart - Dell Scott

“- Don Birnam: What are they playing?
- Helen St. James: Brahms second symphony, something by Beethoven, something by Handel and not one note of Grieg.”
Ray Milland - Don Birnam
Jane Wyman - Helen St. James

“There should be a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Musical Instruments.”

Trevor Howard - Dr. Alec Harvey

“- Sensei: What's your favorite style of music?
- Casey: Adult contemporary.
- Sensei: No. It should be metal. You ever listen to metal?
- Casey: You mean like hard rock?
- Sensei: Metal is much more aggressive than hard rock. From now on, you listen to metal. ”
Alessandro Nivola - Sensei
Jesse Eisenberg - Casey

“Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.”
Cobie Smulders

“- Young Jean Grey: Can you change the station?
- Elaine Grey: When the song's over, honey?
- Young Jean Grey: You said that two songs ago.
- John Grey: You know this is a classic, right?
- Elaine Grey: Okay, how about I make you a promise? When you're old enough to drive, you can listen to whatever music you want. Hmm? That a deal?”
Summer Fontana - Young Jean Grey (8yrs Old)
Hannah Emily Anderson - Elaine Grey

“- Cacopoulos: Wait a minute, wait a minute! Fifteen years, I've dreamed of this moment. Fifteen years! Every night. Every night!
- Cat Stevens: And so?
- Cacopoulos: There's always music. The music of violins. A slow, sweet... waltz. I want music!”

Eli Wallach - Cacopoulos
Terence Hill - Cat Stevens

“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