Music and Lyrics Quotes

Music and Lyrics is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Music and Lyrics ended its run in 1970.

It features Martin Shafer as producer, Adam Schlesinger in charge of musical score, and Xavier Pérez Grobet as head of cinematography.

Music and Lyrics is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Music and Lyrics is 96 minutes long. Music and Lyrics is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Hugh Grant as Alex Fletcher, Drew Barrymore as Sophie Fisher, Brad Garrett as Chris Riley, Haley Bennett as Cora Corman, and Kristen Johnston as Rhonda Fisher.

Music and Lyrics Quotes

Brad Garrett as Chris Riley

• (Brad Garrett) "Why do you have a plant lady? Why do you even have plants?"
• (Hugh Grant) "Because, from time to time, ladies accompany me back to the apartment and one of them once mentioned that plants make women comfortable."
• (Brad Garrett) "Is that true? Plants make women comfortable? Well, maybe if I had plants I'd still be married."
• (Hugh Grant) "Yes, I think that was the problem; not Susan's affair and raging nymphomania, but your lack of vegetation."

• (Brad Garrett) "Alright, it's my fault and I hate myself for it, but I'm not upset, and do you know why?"
• (Hugh Grant) "You've been at my liquor?"

• (Brad Garrett) "So; Cora Corman; how great is that, huh? Do you believe it?"
• (Hugh Grant) "Wait wait wait; is it even a good idea? Pros and cons."
• (Brad Garrett) "Pros: she's a huge star. Great publicity. Terrific money."
• (Hugh Grant) "And cons?"
• (Brad Garrett) "No matter what you do, in forty years we'll both be dead."
• (Hugh Grant) "Okay, so huge star, great publicity, terrific money, versus eventual death. Well, I think we have to think about it."

Hugh Grant as Alex Fletcher

• (Hugh Grant) "Well, that's just ridiculous. Nobody grows up in Florida, unless you're an orange."

• (Hugh Grant) "It doesn't have to be perfect. Just spit it out. They're just lyrics."
• (Drew Barrymore) ""Just lyrics"?"
• (Hugh Grant) "Lyrics are important. They're just not as important as melody."
• (Drew Barrymore) "I really don't think you get it."
• (Hugh Grant) "Oh. You look angry. Click your pen."
• (Drew Barrymore) "A melody is like seeing someone for the first time. The physical attraction. Sex."
• (Hugh Grant) "I so get that."
• (Drew Barrymore) "But then, as you get to know the person, that's the lyrics. Their story. Who they are underneath. It's the combination of the two that makes it magical."

• (Hugh Grant) "It's never been easy for me / To find words to go along with a melody / But this time there's actually something on my mind / So please forgive these few brief awkward lines / Since I met you my whole life is changed / It's not just my furniture you've rearranged / I was living in the past / But somehow you've brought me back / And I haven't felt like this / Since before Frankie said "Relax" / And though I know / Based on my track record / I might not seem like the safest bet / All I'm asking you / Is don't write me off just yet / For years I've been telling myself the same old story / That I was happy to live off my so-called former glories / But you've given me a reason / To take another chance / Now I need you / Despite the fact that you've killed all my plants / And though I know / I've already blown more chances / Than anyone should ever get / All I'm asking you / Is don't write me off just yet."

• (Hugh Grant) "I have great insight. I'd use it on myself only I don't have any problems."

• (Hugh Grant) "I slept with Sophie."
• (Brad Garrett) "You slept with Sophie?"
• (Hugh Grant) "Now remember your blood pressure. You're a tall man, you need all the pressure you can get."
• (Brad Garrett) "This is horrible Alex, this is very bad. Unless you're happy about this in which case I couldn't be more pleased for you -- Should we do pros and cons?"

• (Hugh Grant) "She's going to have a baby."
• (Drew Barrymore) "Hey. What if it were true?"

• (Hugh Grant) "Good. Now you can begin to kill the next one."

• (Hugh Grant) "Sleeping with a clown above my bed --"
• (Hugh Grant) ""Clown" is not right"
• (Drew Barrymore) "That's "cloud." Why would you put a clown in your bed?"
• (Hugh Grant) "It would not be the first time."

• (Khan) "Mr. Fletcher, I have Sophie here for you."
• (Hugh Grant) "Well, that sounds like fun. Who is she?"
• (Khan) "She says she's here to do your plants."
• (Hugh Grant) "No, tell her Jane does my plants."
• (Khan) "She says it will only take five minutes and this is a good time for her."
• (Hugh Grant) "It seems she cannot be stopped. Send her up."

• (Hugh Grant) "Just a little bit louder, because this song is intended for humans, okay? Way Back Into Love, take two."

• (Hugh Grant) "You seem angry; click your pen."

• (Hugh Grant) "I did not pander. I just told her exactly what she wanted to hear."

• (Hugh Grant) "The thing that really hurts is my upper gum. I think I may have impaled myself on a dinner roll. It's a very good thing they didn't have bread sticks. I could have lost an eye."

• (Hugh Grant) "# Give it up, I'm a bad hot witch / I look real good, but I'm a nasty bitch / I'll scream and claw and curdle your blood / But you'll die on your way back into love #"

• (Hugh Grant) "What are you doing, you madwoman, you're wrecking my apartment."
• (Drew Barrymore) "Well, I can't write sitting all the way across the room."
• (Hugh Grant) "No, go back to your corner."
• (Drew Barrymore) "-- Fine, all right."
• (Hugh Grant) "I'm blocked. How am I supposed to get out?"
• (Drew Barrymore) "Go out the other side."
• (Hugh Grant) "But -- but -- I've never been out the other side."

• (Hugh Grant) "We could even re-pot the ficus."

• (Hugh Grant) "You look like a worried little doggy."
• (Drew Barrymore) "Ruff."

• (Hugh Grant) "The best time I've had in the last fifteen years was sitting at that piano with you."
• (Drew Barrymore) "That's wonderfully sensitive -- especially from a man who wears such tight pants."
• (Hugh Grant) "It forces all the blood to my heart."

• (Hugh Grant) "You're Cole Porter in panties. Of course, having said that, Cole Porter probably did wear panties."

• (Hugh Grant) "They're aliens, clearly, I have no children."

• (Hugh Grant) "People wait their whole lives to see an ex when things are going really good. It NEVER happens. You could make relationship history."

• (Hugh Grant) "I've a strange situation here."
• (Brad Garrett) "Oh, you've got a strange situation? I'm at Beth's soccer game with my ex-wife who's here with my ex-gardener. They came on a riding mower."

• (Hugh Grant) "Girls, tell me something -- Are these pants a bit too tight?"

• (Hugh Grant) "Anybody see 'Battle of the 80's Has-Beens' last night? That Debbie Gibson can take a punch."

Drew Barrymore as Sophie Fisher

• (Drew Barrymore) "Sloan, even though Sally Michaels only lives on paper, I live in the real world. And I can never forgive you for using me as raw material to create a fictional monster. Sally Michaels is my own personal ghost, a shadow hanging over each phone call, a cup of tea. And one cold day when age has robbed your mind of its fertile phrases and your hand of its dexterity all the success won't be able to shield you from the pain you've caused and the shame you deserve. Or something like that."

• (Drew Barrymore) "Are you trying to tell me that you enjoyed that orgasm set to the "Gandhi" soundtrack?"

• (Drew Barrymore) "What if Smoky came up to you and said, "Alex Fletcher, you're a horrible song writer"?"
• (Hugh Grant) "Smoky wouldn't. Dylan, Dylan would. Dylan might. Actually, in fact Dylan did."

• (Drew Barrymore) "Are you OK?"
• (Hugh Grant) "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. It's just my Pop. hip. It comes from years of doing our patented dance move. My God, I've suffered for my art."

• (Drew Barrymore) "You should get some ice on that."
• (Hugh Grant) "Only if it's attached to some whiskey."

• (Drew Barrymore) "OW."
• (Hugh Grant) "Yes, I think she's up now."

• (Drew Barrymore) "The worst part is, he still has some power over me. I still care what he thinks."
• (Hugh Grant) "I'm sorry, but how; how can that possibly be? The guy is a jerk."
• (Drew Barrymore) "Well, that's easy for you to say, but --"
• (Hugh Grant) "No, no. He is a jerk. He is a jerk. It's not a question. He is a jerk."
• (Drew Barrymore) "But --"
• (Hugh Grant) "No, he is. He's a jerk. He's a jerk."

• (Drew Barrymore) "I bought it -- the last copy."
• (Hugh Grant) "Right, well, I insist on paying you back immediately. $9.99 right? Do you have a penny?"

Haley Bennett as Cora Corman

• (Haley Bennett) "Derek give me a beat, steamy and sticky."

• (Haley Bennett) "Entering Bootytown/So shake your booty now/'Cause your booty is the way to his heart."

• (Haley Bennett) "If it's meant to be, it will be. It's destiny -- or not."

• (Haley Bennett) "I'll show you the roof. It's upstairs."

Kristen Johnston as Rhonda Fisher

• (Kristen Johnston) "Look, hon, you don't fall a lot. And I've seen the way you look at him, so if you are falling for him -- Just please, please make sure he's passionate about you."
• (Drew Barrymore) "Well, you know, I mean, I'm not falling. We're just working together, you know? And besides, the one time we slept together, it's been totally professional."

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