The Blues Brothers (1980)

Ray Charles: Ray

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Quotes 

• Murph : Tell me a little about this electric piano, Ray.

  Ray : Ah, you have a good eye, my man. That's the best in the city Chicago.

  Jake : How much?

  Ray : 2000 bucks and it's yours. You can take it home with you. As a matter of fact, I'll throw in the black keys for free.

• Jake : [about the electric piano]  $2,000 for this chunk of shit? C'mon, Ray.

  Murph : [tests the piano]  I mean really, Ray, it's used. There's no action left in this keyboard.

  Ray : [smiles, comes out to the piano]  E-excuse me, uh, I don't think there's anything wrong with the action on this piano.

  [plays and sings] 

  Ray : Well, I heard about the fellow you've been dancin' with, All over the neighborhood, So why didn't you ask me baby? Didn't you think I could? Well I know that the boogaloo is outta sight, But the shingaling's the thing tonight, But if that was you and me a now baby, I would have shown you how to do it right, Do it right

  Jake , Elwood : Uh-huh!

  Ray : Do it right

  Jake : Do it right

  Elwood : Do it right

  Ray , Jake , Elwood : Do it right!

• [as the Blues Brothers are trying to haggle the price of a piano, a little boy is in the back trying to steal a guitar. Suddenly, Ray whips out a gun and -- despite being blind -- nearly misses hitting the boy] 

  Ray : Now, go on! Get!

  [the little boy scurries away] 

  Ray : [sadly]  Breaks my heart to see a boy that young goin' bad.

• [at the closing, as each character is credited] 

  Reverend Cleophus James : The sad sack was sittin' on a block o' stone/Way over in the corner weepin' all alone/

  Curtis : The warden said, "Hey, buddy, don't you be no square / if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair!"

  Ray : Let's rock, everybody, let's rock/

  Mrs. Murphy : Everybody on the whole cell block / Was dancin' to the Jailhouse rock.

• Ray : Pardon me, but we have a strict policy concerning the handling of the instruments. An employee of Ray's Music Exchange must be present. Now, may I help you?

• Jake , Elwood : [singing]  Hey, we gonna loop de loop

  Ray : Shake it out baby

  Jake , Elwood : Hey we gonna loop de la

  Jake : Bend over, let me see ya shake your tailfeather

  Jake , Elwood : Bend over, let me see ya shake your tailfeather

  Jake , Elwood , Ray : Come on, let me see ya shake your tailfeather, Come on, let me see ya shake your tailfeather, Aaah!

  Ray : Come on, come on baby, Come on, yeah, come on babe, Alright! Do the twist, Do the fly, Oh, do the swim, And do the bird, Well, do the duck, Aaah, And do the monkey, Hey, hey, watusi, And a-what about the food? Do the mashed potato, What about the boogaloo? Oh, the bony marony, Come on, let's do the twist, Aaah, Twistin', Shake it, shake it, shake it, baby...