- Dale: Listen to that, Francis. The swing bands used to be all straight tonics seventh chords. And then, with the Basie band I heard Lester Young and he sounded like he came out of the blue. Because he was playing all the color tones the sixths and the ninths and major sevenths. You know, like Debussy and Ravel. Then Charlie Parker came on and he began to expand and he went into elevenths and thirteenths and flat fives. Luckily, I was going in the same direction already. You just don't go out and pick a style off a tree one day. The tree is inside you growing naturally.
- [Drunken man downs liquor and passes out flat on his back]
- Dale: S'il vous plait, I would like to have the same thing he had.
- [last lines]
- Dale: I hope, Lady Francis, that we live long enough to see an avenue named after Charlie Parker, a Lester Young Park, a Duke Ellington Square. And even, a street named - Dale Turner.
- Ace: When you have to explore every night - even the most beautiful things that you find can be the most painful. Do you understand what I'm saying?
- Dale: It's funny how the world is inside of nothing. I mean you have your heart and soul - inside of you. Babies are inside of their mothers. Fish are out there - in the water. But the world - is inside of nothing. I don't know if I like this or not, but you better write it down.
- Dale: You half a motherfucker - can I have another Vin Rouge? Well, this establishment has never been known for its -. conviviality.
- Goodley: Paris, to me, Paris is a beautiful place. A beautiful city. It's got fancy bridges and it looks - I understand now they're steam cleaning the buildings too. Making them nice and white and clean. But, I prefer New York. I prefer New York. New York for me, the music is better. That's 'cos it's tougher - there's tougher things going on here, you know, and that's because there's tougher people here. Yeah. It's not for everybody, New York, you know what I mean?
- Eddie Wayne: We would like to open with a tribute to a great jazz musician, a man who died a few years ago. He passed away ahead of us, but he was always doing things... ahead of us. He wrote a song just before he died that we'd like to perform tonight for you. His name is Dale Turner.
- Eddie Wayne: If you had seen Hershell and Dale play together, Francis, it's something that you could never forget. They were so new and so different and yet so close. Maybe it was all those memories that made Dale leave for Paris that Friday morning. Maybe what he saw in Hershell's eyes was too frightening and too familiar.
- Dale: You know, it just occurred to me that bebop was invented by the cats who did get out of the army.
- Eddie Wayne: I'm married now to the French Chiquita here.
- Tenor Saxophone (Blue Note), Soprano Saxophone (Davout Studio, Lyon): How you doing? Can you speak the local bebop?
- Eddie Wayne: Trying it, don't have it together yet. But she's beginning to speak some American, a little bit.
- Dale: You know, one night in Brooklyn this tenor player comes in - and he sits down and he listens. And then he comes up to me and says: 'l play you - better than you.'
- Dale: You know, there's been nights when I've been working and playing and at the end of the night, I look at my mouthpiece and it's all bloody. But I haven't felt a thing, you know.
- Dale: [Doctor asks Dale about his nighttime dreams] it's always about music - and playing the saxophone. The sound - and expanding the music. You know, more and more.
- Buttercup: [singing] I've had that man for 15 years, Paid all his room and board, Once he was like a Cadillac, Now he's like an old worn-out Ford...
- Darcey Leigh: Why do you seem so on edge?
- Dale: Just because - I keep wondering if I still have something to give.
- Darcey Leigh: Of course you do. You have a lot to give. It was you who taught me to listen to the bass instead of the drums.
- Dale: Well, you would've learned that in 10 or 15 years anyway.
- Eddie Wayne: Tonight, we have in the house with us - Miss Darcey Leigh. Perhaps if we welcome her nicely to the stage, she'll join us. Please?
- Darcey Leigh: "How Long Has This Been Going On?"
- Dale: Oh, you know your cue?
- Darcey Leigh: Yes, the two.
- [singing]
- Darcey Leigh: I could cry salty tears, Where have I been all these years? Little wow, tell me now, How long has this been goin' on? There were chills up my spine, And some thrills I can't define, Listen, sweet, I repeat, How long has this been goin' on? Oh, I feel that I could melt, Into heaven I'm hurled, I know how Columbus felt, Finding another world,,,
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