Music quotes

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

“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'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

“One band, one sound.”

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

“I'm a big jazz fan and I really liked what she was doing. I thought it was unique, I thought it was edgy. And sincere.”

Yasiin Bey - Yasiin Bey

“Music is all I really understand.”
Sir Michael Caine - Fred Ballinger

“Opera is: when a guy's stabbed in the back, instead of bleeding, he sings. It seems to me, after much research, that rap is when a guy is stabbed in the back, and instead of bleeding, he talks. Er, rhythmically, even with feeling. But because rap's spoken, the feeling is sort of held in check: all on one note.”
Tom Courtenay - Reggie Paget

“I take music pretty seriously. You see that scar on my wrist? You see that? You know where that's from? I heard the Bee Gees were getting back together again. I couldn't take it.”
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“Somewhere between five hundred and a thousand songs. Right in your pocket. Because I can't stand looking at that ridiculous Walkman anymore. You're carrying around a brick playing a cassette tape. We're not savages.”

Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs

“Boyband Island? Hope that's just a phase.”
Bill Hader - Fear

“There is always going to be resistance so you gotta be patient. Look for that one person who's not afraid to just go for it.”

Zac Efron - Cole

“- Kevin Kingston: Do you have any Justin Timberlake or Clay Aiken?
- Nick Persons: Lord, these kids are ethnically challenged. You know you could get shot by playing those CDs in my old neighborhood.
- Kevin Kingston: We're not ghetto!”
Philip Bolden - Kevin Kingston
Ice Cube - Nick Persons

“- Michelle: What kind of music do you like?
- Dr. Richard Walker: What? Oldies, I like oldies.”
Emmanuelle Seigner - Michelle
Harrison Ford - Dr. Richard Walker

“There's a popular myth that 128 beats per minute is the rate that synergizes most with your heartbeat. That's the magic number. Once you've gotten your crowd there, you're controlling their entire circulatory system.”

Zac Efron - Cole