I sing damn good, if you must know, but I started off wrong, working with a cheap band in some crummy cellar.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Fortune Cookie (1966) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:13:50 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Oh, yeah, right where it happened. Actually, I'm the guy that hit him.
- It's got me all shook up. I keep running that play over and over again in my mind.
- Harry played me your record. You sing good.
- To make it these days, you need exposure.
- A showcase. Like the Copa or the Persian Room.
- And for that, you need money. So unless you got, like, 20000 bucks, forget it.
- Maybe it's all for the best. Because now that you're here, maybe you'll decide to stay.
- Sure, and go back to doing those linoleum commercials.
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