Ritchie Valens Quotes in La Bamba (1987)

Bob Keene: Wait Ritchie, look. I understand about friendship... but I'm being honest here. Not everyone in the world gets a shot at the "brass ring." You're gonna have to ask yourself what's more important, your friends... or your music.

Ritchie Valens: [Walks back to table] My family...

Ritchie Valens: This is like my high school prom.

Bob Morales: Yeah. Except this prom puts out.

Connie Valenzuela: How could you do this to Ritchie!

Bob Morales: To Ritchie? I did this to me, okay!

Rosie Morales: That's my Bob, always thinking of others first.

Bob Morales: Shut your goddamn mouth!

Ritchie Valens: Hey man, don't take it out on Rosie, okay.

Bob Morales: Ritchie, you don't understand man. You don't understand a goddamn thing!

[walking Away]

Bob Morales: What do you think, the whole fuckin' world revolves around you!

Ritchie Valens: Bob. Where's mom's new dress?

Bob Morales: What new dress?

Ritchie Valens: The one I asked you to buy her for Christmas.

Bob Morales: Hey, you're the asshole with all the money, why don't you buy it yourself!

Ritchie Valens: Bob! Watch it! My guitar, man!

Bob Morales: Sorry. I didnt' know that piece of junk was so important to you.

Ritchie Valens: I even sleep with it.

Bob Morales: Don't be such a dreamer, man.

Ritchie Valens: My dreams are pure rock and roll.

Bob Morales: I've had one sip of beer and I have to admit it taste like piss to me. Want it?

Ritchie Valens: Yeah.

[takes a sip then puts the beer down]

Ritchie Valens: What's your problem man?

Bob Morales: Old Steve. He always said you'd be somebody and I bought it, too. If that's the way Steve wanted it that's the way it was going to be. Even after he told me he wasnt my dad, once I knew the full score, I understood why he treated you just a little bit better than me. I'll just hang around for the leftovers, like a dog. That's how much i loved him. Like a goddamn dog.

Ritchie Valens: Bob we don't have to talk about this right now.

Bob Morales: Shit! No, I want to talk about this and you're gonna listen to me!

Ritchie Valens: This is a crock of shit man!

Bob Morales: Man he set you up to conquer the world and didn't leave me shit!

Ritchie Valens: Nobody told you to throw your life away! I'm only sorry I didn't say something about you be drunk half the time. You did it to yourself!

Bob Morales: Listen to you, coming in here like you own the whole goddamn country. To me you'll always be that little asshole who followed me around in the sticks.

Ritchie Valens: Yeah, I followed you around man, 'cause I thought you were somebody. Then!

Ritchie Valens: My mom reckons I'm going to be a star. And stars don't fall from the sky.