Rob Gordon Quotes in High Fidelity (2000)

Rob Gordon: I will now sell five copies of "The Three EPs" by The Beta Band.

Dick: Go for it.

[Rob plays the record]

Beta Band Customer: Who is this?

Rob Gordon: The Beta Band.

Beta Band Customer: It's good.

Rob Gordon: I know.

Barry: I wanna date a musician.

Rob Gordon: I wanna live with a musician. She'd write songs at home and ask me what I thought of them, and maybe even include one of our little private jokes in the liner notes.

Barry: Maybe a little picture of me in the liner notes.

Dick: Just in the background somewhere.

Rob Gordon: She LIKED me. She liked ME. SHE like me... At least I think she did.

Rob Gordon: Hey, I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I'm certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I've read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I've understood them. They're about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash's autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.

[while Marie de Salle is singing "Baby I Love Your Way"]

Rob Gordon: I used to hate this song.

Barry, Dick: Yeah.

Rob Gordon: Now I kinda like it.

Barry, Dick: Yeah.

Rob Gordon: All three of us writers, we all experience music autobiographically.

Rob Gordon: I think a lot of people do.

Rob Gordon: So I'll have certain songs that mark certain times in our life and I think we're not rare that way.

Rob Gordon: Like I'll use music as fuel, you know?

Rob Gordon: Not like as inspiration but as fuel like if I need to get into a certain mindset I know there's certain songs that I can turn on that'll just... that's the gas and that'll get me right where I need to go.

Rob Gordon: Or if I need to get out of a certain state put on this song or that song and it just propels you.

Rob Gordon: [Rob's mother starts to cry after Rob tells her over the phone that he and Laura have broken up] I'm okay if that's what's upsetting you...

Rob's Mom: That is NOT what's upsetting me!

Rob Gordon: [Sharply] Well it fuckin' should be, shouldn't it?