The Great Movie/Press Quotes on Music thread

Gassage · May 2015

@panamajack666 's thread got me thinking...fave movie/press quotes on music...

The Blues Brothers:

"Well we have both types of music. Country AND Western."

and

Zappa:

"The disgusting stink of a too loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time."

Both utter genius.

BigMonka · May 2015

I really like the Nick Hornby book/film High Fidelity, there's a great scene with Jack Black (character is called Barry) serving a customer in their record shop:

Customer: Hi, do you have the song "I Just Called To Say I Love You?" It's for my daughter's birthday.

Barry: Yea we have it.

Customer: Great great... Well, can I have it?

Barry: No, you can't.

Customer: Why not?!

Barry: Because it's sentimental tacky crap that's why. Do we look like a store that sells "I Just Called to Say I Love You"? Go to the mall!

Customer: What's your problem?!

Barry: Do you even know your daughter? There's no way she likes that song! Oh oh oh wait! Is she in a coma?

Customer: Oh, okay buddy. I didn't know it was Pick on the Middle-Aged Square Guy Day. My apologies. I'll be on my way.

Barry: [sarcastically] Buh-bye!

Customer: Fuck you!

IanSavage · May 2015

From 'Still Crazy' (probably the finest film about rock 'n' roll since 'This Is Spinal Tap'):

Beano (Timothy Spall) : "Are you still a road dog, Huey?"

Huey (Billy Connelly): "Nah, the last tour I did was with Aerosmith, but they've cleaned up their act: it's all wheatgrass juice and fuckin' pumpkin seeds. Hope you guys are still crazy or I'm outta here."

Narrator (Billy Connelly): "If it's true that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then drummers are from Pluto."

breakstuff · May 2015

HAL9000 · May 2015

Nigel Tufnel: It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why.

Marty DiBergi: It's very nice.

Nigel Tufnel: You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of...

Marty DiBergi: What do you call this?

Nigel Tufnel: Well, this piece is called "Lick My Love Pump".

chillidoggy · May 2015

"The Blues Brothers" is a mine for this kind of thing. I could quote loads, but I really like Aretha Franklin's - "The Blues Brothers.............sheeeeeite."

HAL9000 · May 2015

And of course...

Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...

Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?

Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.

Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?

Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?

Marty DiBergi: I don't know.

Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?

Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.

Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.

Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?

Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

Gassage · May 2015

And of course

"Orange whip? Orange whip? That'll be 3 Orange whips please."

DesVegas · May 2015

Goddamn Penguin!!

SRich · May 2015

So many quotes to go for, but this is so memorable:

Danny: The joint I'm about to roll requires a craftsman. It can utilise up to 12 skins. It is called a Camberwell Carrot.

Marwood: It's impossible to use 12 papers on one joint.

Danny: It's impossible to make a Camberwell Carrot with anything less.

Withnail: Who says it's a Camberwell Carrot?

Danny: I do. I invented it in Camberwell, and it looks like a carrot.

Cirrus · May 2015

Does it HAVE to be from a movie? Because I once overheard my own singer having an argument with his mate on the way to a gig;

Mate: The best movie of all time for me has to be the first Godfather.

Singer: My favourite would probably have to be Around the World in 80 Days with Steve Coogan

Mate: WHAT!? That movie's terrible!

Singer; No it's not, you're just trying to be sophisticated with the Godfather

Mate: Well I'd rather be sophisticated than be a philistine

Singer: Well I'd rather be a philistine than a CUNT!

scrumhalf · May 2015

Another great quote from Still Crazy, possibly from the same scene is when Connolly's character says:

"I seem to have this irresistible urge to chronicle human folly". It's just brilliant.