You were the backbone. The nerve center of a great rhythm-and-blues band.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Blues Brothers (1980) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:48:10 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- He pulled that job to pay for the band's room-service tab from that Kiwanis gig in Coal City.
- You did?
- So I don't want to hear anymore of this small-change shit.
- We're putting the band back together.
- You were the backbone. The nerve center of a great rhythm-and-blues band.
- You can make that live, breathe and jump again.
- 'Murph and the Magic Tones?'
- Look at you in those candy-ass monkey suits.
- And I thought I had it bad in Joliet.
[...]