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Frank Ridgeway: Can I help you guys?
Sal Amato: Yeah, tell Tony Eddie and the Cruisers are here.

Eddie Wilson: I want something great. I want something that's never been done before!
Sal Amato: Why? We ain't great. We're just some guys from Jersey.

Frank Ridgeway: [Band is at college where Frank graduated from] We've played at colleges before.
Eddie Wilson: Sure, we played at "St. Something" down in Delaware and "Fairly Ridiculous" up in Madison, but we never played at no finishing school like this before.

Eddie Wilson: [Getting ready to practice Betty Lou Got a New Pair of Shoes] Let's get on the music. 1,2, 1, 2, 3, 4
[Starts the song]
Eddie Wilson: Hold it, hold it. Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Sal Amato: What's the matter?
Eddie Wilson: What's the matter, where you racing to, where's the fire?
Sal Amato: No fire. That's the way the songs written, it goes that way; upbeat. What's the problem.
Eddie Wilson: The problem is I'm just saying words. You know you got to give me a little room so people know what I'm signing about.
Sal Amato: Hey, you lose the beat, people miss a step. We want them to dance.
Eddie Wilson: Lose a beat, miss a step. What are you a moron Sal?
Sal Amato: Do you believe this guy?
Eddie Wilson: Look Sal I like your stuff, but, it's just ain't what I was looking for you understand.
Sal Amato: Forget it, you had your mind made up before you even started, so what am I knocking myself out for.
Eddie Wilson: Look I don't want to argue with you Sal. Do you want to get another opinion on the subject?
Sal Amato: No. Forget it.
Eddie Wilson: Joann, what do you think?
Sal Amato: What are you asking her for?
Eddie Wilson: Why not ask her, she's got a brain.
Sal Amato: I don't know anything? She knows uh? Everybody you bring into this bank is an expert, except Sally. Sally just a dumb guinea right?
Eddie Wilson: You dumb guinea.
[Looking at Frank]
Eddie Wilson: Hey kid come here.
Frank Ridgeway: Who me?
Eddie Wilson: Yeah, you come here. Now, you heard what we're talking about. What do you think?
Frank Ridgeway: [Slowly walks over]
Frank Ridgeway: I think he's right,
[Agreeing with Eddie]
Frank Ridgeway: I think it needs a caesar.
Eddie Wilson: [Pointing to himself] See my way with a cesarean.

Maggie Foley: [On the bridge Eddie wrecked on] The innocence of the 50's was over and so was rock and roll as we knew it. We were entering a new age, an age of confusion, an age of passion, of commitment. Eddie Wilson saw it coming. "Season in Hell" is a total innovation for it's time. It was a signal of greatness yet to come. Eddie Wilson was a step ahead of us and I don't think we've caught up with him yet. Eddie's been dead for almost 18 years, but his music is as alive today as the day he recorded it. For me and for everyone who listens to music, Eddie Wilson lives.

Joann Carlino: There were so many things I wanted say to him, so many things I wanted to ask. But, Eddie and I, we had a deal, we never talked about he future; we thought the present was so fine, why ruin it by planning ahead. But, as Eddie drove off, I knew, I knew it then, it wasn't going to be any future.

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