Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) - Quotes

Taglines: The Blues are Back.

Elwood Blues: [[w:Robert Johnson|Robert Johnson; [w:Muddy Waters|Muddy Waters; [Willie Dixon; [w:Jimmy Reed|Jimmy Reed; [w:Memphis Slim|Memphis Slim; [w:Blind Boy Fuller|Blind Boy Fuller; [w:Louis Jordan|Louis Jordan; [w:Little Walter|Little Walter; [w:Big Walter Horton|Big Walter; [w:Sonny Boy Williamson I|Sonny Boy Williamson I; [w:Sonny Boy Williamson II|II; [Otis Redding; [w:Jackie Wilson|Jackie Wilson; [Elvis Presley; [Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller|Leiber and Stoller; [w:Robert K. Weiss|Robert K. Weiss] You may go if you wish. But remember this: walk away now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo-songs of violence-laden gangsta-rap, acid pop, and simpering, saccharine, soulless slush. Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ], ], ], ], ], and ].

Donald "Duck" Dunn: Who is Robert K. Weiss?

Elwood Blues: Turn your backs now and you snuff out the fragile candles of blues, R&B and soul, and when those flames flicker and expire, the light of the world is extinguished because the music which has moved mankind through seven decades leading to the millennium will wither and die on the vine of abandonment and neglect.

Elwood Blues: Uh, is there anything in particular you would like to hear this evening, your highness?

Queen Moussette: Yes. Do something Caribbean.

Elwood Blues: Uh, ma'am, we're the Blues Brothers. We do blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, funk, soul, we can handle rock, pop, country, heavy metal, fusion, hip hop, rap, Motown, operetta, show tunes, in fact, we've even been called upon, on occasion, to do a polka. However, Caribbean is a type of music, I regret to say, which has not been, is simply not, nor will ever be a part of this band's repertoire.