Mr. Glenn Holland: The day they cut the football budget
in this state, that will be the end of Western Civilization
as we know it!
Iris Holland: Why is everyone else's child more important
than yours?
Vice Principal Gene Wolters: Rock 'n' roll by its very nature
leads to a breakdown in discipline.
Louis Russ: Tubas are for fat guys with pimples.
Glenn Holland: Play the sunset.
Glenn Holland: Playing music is supposed to be fun. It's
about heart, it's about feelings, moving people, and something
beautiful, and it's not about notes on a page. I can teach
you notes on a page, I can't teach you that other stuff.
Glenn Holland: Well, congratulations, Gene. You've been
looking for a way to get rid of me for 30 years, and they
finally gave you an excuse. Vice Principal Wolters: You
know, I'm not as popular as you. I'm not anybody's favorite
anything. Glenn Holland: That's because you're the enemy,
Gene. You just don't know it.
Glenn Holland: I'm 60 years old, Gene. What are you going
to do: write me a recommendation for the morgue?
Glenn Holland: Which instrument do you think you'd like
to play? Louis Russ: Well, I was kinda thinkin' like...
How about electric guitar? Glenn Holland: Well, this is
a marching band. The extension cord will kill us.
Vice Principal Wolters: Have you been to any of the football
games this season, Mr. Holland? Glenn Holland: I can't say
that I have, no. Vice Principal Wolters: Well, Mrs. Jacobs
and I feel that there's something missing. Glenn Holland:
Touchdowns?
Principal Jacobs: A teacher has two jobs; fill young minds
with knowledge, yes, but more important, give those minds
a compass so that that knowledge doesn't go to waste.
Rowena Morgan: You love music and you make the kids love
it too.
Vice Principal Wolters: I care about these kids just as
much as you do. And if I'm forced to choose between Mozart
and reading and writing and long division, I choose long
division. Glenn Holland: Well, I guess you can cut the arts
as much as you want, Gene. Sooner or later, these kids aren't
going to have anything to read or write about.
