Songs quotes

“- Harvey: You can't write songs.
- Manuel: I don't write them. I just find them in my mouth.”
Freddie Bartholomew - Harvey
Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“Songs about the sun and the sea. Songs about the clouds. Big songs - about the wind and the storms. And little songs too - about the tip on my mother's nose. Oh, my father, he feel beautiful inside.”

Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“- Harvey: People learn songs. Songs aren't just inside of people like that.
- Manuel: Sometimes a song so big and sweet inside, I just can't get them out. And then I look up at stars and maybe cry, it feels so good.”
Freddie Bartholomew - Harvey
Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“- Harvey: A song can't be any good like that! When you just make it up.
- Manuel: That's best kind songs. When you feel good inside, like trade winds, she just come out.”
Freddie Bartholomew - Harvey
Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“- Young Celeste: I'll nail that, then we can get started on Body Talk.
- Music director: I'm sorry, what section is that?
- Young Celeste: It's the next track.”
Raffey Cassidy - Young Celeste
Erik King - Music director

“- Ray Foster: Bohemian...
- Brian May: Rhapsody. It's poetic.
- Ray Foster: What on earth is it about? Scaramouche? Galileo? Beelzebub? And that Ismallah business?
- Freddie Mercury: Bismillah.”
Mike Myers - Ray Foster
Gwilym Lee - Brian May
Rami Malek - Freddie Mercury

“We need a song teenagers can bang their heads to in a car. Bohemian Rhapsody is not that song.”
Mike Myers - Ray Foster

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

- 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

“I've been writing songs since I was a kid, but my arrangements sound like some cheesy Saturday morning cartoon or something.”
Hilary Duff - Teresa 'Terri' Fletcher

“Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb. Mary had a little lamb her hair was white as snow! And every which way that Mary went, the lamb was right behind her. It followed her to work one day, work one day, work one day. It followed her to work one day… and Mary lost her job!”
Joe Pantoliano - Norby

“- Frances: You know, ever since I sang that song it's been haunting me.
- Rag Time Kelly: It should haunt you: you murdered it.”
Grace La Rue - Frances
Fuzzy Knight - Rag Time Kelly

- Milt Shaw: He's filed a lawsuit, Ray, and it's more than a fine. This guy's got juice, he can get you barred from ever playing "Georgia" again. But he's willing to drop the suit if you make up the gig.
- Ray Charles: Not if it's segregated.
David Krumholtz - Milt Shaw
Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles

“- Loretta Lynn: I done wrote me a song, Betty Sue. Your mama dadgome songwriter now.
- Betty Sue Lynn: That's a nice song, mama.
- Loretta Lynn: Thank you, baby.”

Sissy Spacek - Loretta Lynn
Sissy Lucas - Betty Sue Lynn

Man, you should see this song I'm listening to. It's called "Don't Bogart That Joint, My Friend”.
Jon Abrahams - Drugs Delaney

“I'm a slave to rock 'n' roll. I am searching for the perfect song... the perfect sound that will make you wanna live forever.”
Tom Cruise - Stacee Jaxx

- Record Producer: You have failed conclusively! It's over! And there is nothing that you can do, here in this room... that can turn that around. Nothing you can do that can make up for what you just did to "That's Amore".
- Dewey Cox: [quietly] Well, my mother liked it a whole lot.
- Record Producer: Your mother was wrong!

John Michael Higgins - Record Producer
John C. Reilly - Dewey Cox

Demonic beasts. Whatever happened to the good old simple love song? "I love you". That's what good words use. Nowadays they have to write some sickness. It's just absoultely sick and bizarre, and I'm going to do my upmost best to try and stop it now.
Ozzy Osbourne - Rev. Aaron Gilstrom

“- Linda Lue Linden: You know, Kyle Davidson, there's something you never knew about me.
- Kyle Davidson: What's that?
- Linda Lue Linden: You could have had me for a song.”

Sandra Bullock - Linda Lue Linden
Dermot Mulroney - Kyle Davidson

“What I want is songs that echo. The stuff we're doing now is like somebody's bedsheets. Spread 'em out, soil 'em, ship 'em out to laundry, you know?”
Michael Paré - Eddie Wilson

“I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.”
Zooey Deschanel

“- Tommy Gnosis: What do you think? Do you think love lasts forever?
- Hedwig: No, but this song does.”

Michael Pitt - Tommy Gnosis
John Cameron Mitchell - Hedwig

“The hills have gone gay.”

Abraham Benrubi - Dennis

- Preacher: [referring to Dewey Cox's song] You think we don't know what you're talking about when you say "take my hand?".
- Dewey Cox: What do you mean? It's about holding hands.
- Pa Cox: You watch your mouth.
- Preacher: You know who's got hands? The devil. And he uses them for holding.
Rance Howard - Preacher
John C. Reilly - Dewey Cox
Raymond J. Barry - Pa Cox

“Shut the fuck up. It's Christmastime. I'm gonna sing you a little song.”

Bette Midler - Dixie Leonard