Songs quotes

“- 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

- 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

“- 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

- Loretta Lynn: It goes like this "It'll be over my dead body, so get out while you can", then it drops down to "Cause you ain't woman enough to take my man!"
- Doolittle Lynn: Where'd you come up with the idea for that song, Loretta?

Sissy Spacek - Loretta Lynn
Tommy Lee Jones - Doolittle Lynn

“I'd like to dedicate this to my father, Francis L. It's a song the girls in the band wrote, Lisa and Wendy.”

Prince - The Kid

“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

“My fellow Austrians, I shall not be seeing you again perhaps for a very long time. I would like to sing for you now... a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die.”
Christopher Plummer - Captain von Trapp

“- 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

“I mean Led Zeppelin didn't writetunes that anybody liked. They left that to the BeeGees.”
Mike Myers - Wayne Campbell

“- 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

“Every band puts out at least one pussy song so they can find out who the faggots are!”
Bradford Tatum - Hubbs

“Dan: That's some song you got there. I promise you it could be a big hit. Plus you're beautiful.
Gretta: I'm sorry, what's beauty got to do with anything?
Dan: Jesus, you're tricky, aren't you?”
Keira Knightley - Gretta
Mark Ruffalo - Dan

“You can tell a lot about a person by what's on their playlist.”
Mark Ruffalo - Dan

“I have to sing, I have to play. The music, it’s not just in me, it is me. When life gets me down, I play my guitar. The rest of the world may follow the rules, but I must follow my heart. You know that feeling, like there’s a song in the air and it’s playing just for you.”
Benjamin Bratt - Ernesto de la Cruz

“This next song goes out to all the agoraphobic junkies who couldn't be here tonight.”
Mx Justin Vivian Bond - Lounge Singer

“‘Eye of the Tiger’ is the greatest song ever written. It’s so cool, it ended the Cold War!”
Lamorne Morris - Winston Bishop

“There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman

“- Ellie Appleton: When did you write that?
- Jack Malik: I didn't write it. Paul McCartney wrote it, The Beatles wrote it.”

Lily James - Ellie Appleton
Himesh Patel - Jack Malik

“- 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

“We need a songteenagers 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

“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