arminarm.wav (158KB)
Cecil: He was elegance, walking arm in arm with a lie.

bmfight.wav (544KB)
Mandy: Your problem is you get what you want and do what you will.
Brian: Worlds, Mandy, are built out of suffering. There is suffering at the birth of a child as at the birth of a star.
Mandy: You live in terror of not being misunderstood.
Brian: Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

brianshout.wav (64KB)
Brian: Piss off! Go on then! Back to your wolves! Your junkie twerps! Your bloody shock treatment! And fuck you too!

changetheworld.wav (627KB)
Curt: Listen - a real artist creates beautiful things and puts nothing of his own life into them. Okay?
Arthur: Is that what you did?
Curt: No. We set out to change the world...and ended up just changing ourselves.
Arthur: What's wrong with that?
Curt: Nothing...if you don't look at the world.

deathglitter.wav (287KB)
Jack Fairy: To save your wild, wild lives/To ne'er your fans embitter/To cease your sad demise/Tonight we toast-

extraordinary.wav (76KB)
Jerry: Extraordinary.

freedom.wav (318KB)
Arthur: He called it a freedom. A freedom you can allow yourself. Or not.

gay.wav (106KB)
Curt: It's supposedly the thing to do right now. But you just can't fake being gay. You know, if you're gonna claim that you're gay, you're gonna have to make love in gay style, and most of these kids just aren't going to make it. That line, 'Everyone's bisexual', that's a very popular thing to say right now. Personally, I think it's meaningless.

gd1.wav (165KB)
A piece from "Gimme Danger"

gd2.wav (131KB)
Another piece from "Gimme Danger"

hell.wav (22KB)
Brian: You're Curt Wild.
Curt: Yeah. Who the hell are you?

high.wav (107KB)
Curt: Come closer. Don't be frightened. What's your name? Your favorite color? Song. Movie. Don't be nervous. Are you high?
Arthur: I'm on a button.

image.wav (120KB)
Curt: I forget where we were. We were on a trip. But he said to me, 'Curt, a man's life is his image.' Here. Why don't you hang on to it?
Arthur: Me?
Curt: Sure, why not? I've had it too long anyway. Go ahead. For your image.

jerrypress.wav (311KB)
Jerry: Every great century that produces art is, so far, an artificial century, and the work that seems the most natural and simple of its time is always the result of the most self-conscious effort.

kiss.wav (154KB)
Curt: The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

mainman.wav (835KB)
Brian: What Jerry's trying to say is do you want to come to London to cut a record?
Curt: Oh yeah. Cool.
Jerry: Very good.
Brian: But, but how can we help you? You must tell us. What do you need?
Curt: Everything. See, heroin was my main man. Yeah, but now I'm on the methadone and I'm getting my act together, and you come here and say you wanna help, and I say far out...you could be my main man.

mandypress.wav (184KB)
Mandy: What's true about music is true about life: that beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing.

mangle.wav (598KB)
Curt: Make a wish, and see yourself on stage, inside out. A tangle of garlands in your hair. Of course you are pleasantly surprised.
Arthur: Softly he said,...
Curt and Arthur: I will mangle your mind.

mask.wav (147KB)
Brian: Man is least himself when he talks in his own person! Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth!

meetcurt.wav (178KB)
Brian: Curt Wild. I want to meet Curt Wild.

modrocker.wav (177KB)
Girl: So what are you, a mod or a rocker?
Brian: Six of one, half a dozen of the other, really.

natural.wav (216KB)
Curt: Excuse me fellas, while I raise a glass to the loveliest man in Europe.
Crowd: Oooh.
Brian: And they tell you it's not natural.

pin.wav (113KB)
Arthur: That's quite a pin you got there.
Curt: Yeah.
Arthur: Is it old?
Curt: Possibly. It belonged to Oscar Wilde, or so I was told by the person who gave it to me. A friend of mine who kinda disappeared some years back.

popidol.wav (77KB)
Oscar Wilde: I want to be a pop idol.

pose.wav (200KB)
Freddi: The first duty in life is to assume a pose. What the second duty is, no one has yet found out.

prostitute.wav (338KB)
Reporter: Brian, why the makeup?
Brian: Why? Because rock and roll's a prostitute! It should be tarted up! Performed! The music is the mask, while I, in my chiffon and taff well, varda the message!

rocket.wav (130KB)
Brian: 'I knew I should create a sensation,' gasped the rocket, and he went out.

sebastian.wav (558KB)
(This scene is different from what's in the screenplay, so I tried to decipher what they were saying the best I could.)
Brian: (singing in the background throughout) Radiate simply. The candle is burning so low for me. Generate me limply, can't seem to place your name, cherie. Somebody called me Sebastian. Somebody called me Sebastian. Work out a rhyme, toss me the time, lay me, you're mine. And we all know, oh yeah! Your Persian eyes sparkle; your lips, ruby blue...
Cecil: Somehow he got it into his head that he had to perform in a frock - don't ask me why. I mean, I thought it was a bit naughty, a bit of a giggle, but um...
Boy 1: Who is this geezer, then?
Boy 2: Some shirt-lifter from Birmingham.
Boy 1: Ew...
Audience: Get the fuck off! Cut the shite! Bugger off, you wooftah! Fuck off!

sinner.wav (128KB)
Brian: Hah! Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner!

slicedbeatles.wav (161KB)
Jerry: That man sittin' over there in the white suit is the biggest thing to come out of this country since sliced Beatles.

takeover.wav (377KB)
Curt: Watch your head. Watch out. Excuse me. Coming through. Careful now.
Reporter: Tell us, Brian, are the rumors true when they say you and Curt Wild have some sort of plans up your sleeve?
Brian: Oh yes. Quite soon we actually plan to take over the world!

toobig.wav (93KB)
Curt: I don't know. No, it got too big, I guess. It got too schizoid, you know? I mean, he thought he fucking was Maxwell Demon in the end, you know? And Maxwell Demon, he thought he was God.

wish.wav (35KB)
Curt: <laughs> Hey! Make a wish.

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