August Rush: [opening voice-over] Listen. Can you hear it? The music. I can hear it everywhere. In the wind... in the air... in the light. It's all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do... is listen.
August Rush: [in voiceover] But I believe in music... The way that some people believe in fairy tales.
Wizard: You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe, a harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.
Louis Connelly: [Louis explaining not giving up music to August] You never quit on your music. No matter what happens. Cuz anytime something bad happens to you, that's the one place you can escape to and just let it go. I learned it the hard way. And...
August Rush: The music is all around US, all you have to do is listen.
Richard Jeffries: Why is it so important that you want him now? Lyla Novacek: I've ALWAYS wanted him! Lyla Novacek: [in tears] I've waited eleven years, two months, and fifteen days just to find out that he's alive! [Jeffries stares at Lyla] Lyla Nov...
August Rush: Sometimes the world tries ot knock it out of you. But I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales. I like to imagine that what I hear came from my mother and father. Maybe the notes I hear, are the same ones they h...
Hope: You remember how you said Mozart was a musical pod? Reverend James: Prodigy. Hope: Yeah, well, I've got one of those and he's living under my bed!
Wizard: What do you want to be in the world? I mean the whole world. What do you want to be? Close your eyes and think about that. August Rush: Found. Wizard: [pauses] Doesn't have enough yin. little more yang, ya know? August Rush: yeah
Louis Connelly: [listening to the music on the roof with Lyla] Can you hear that? Lyla Novacek: What is that? Louis Connelly: It's a wish Lyla Novacek: Now what does that sound like? Louis Connelly: [singing] well it's a marvelous night for a moondan...
Wizard: You got to love music more than you love food. More than life. More than yourself.
Wizard: Can't you see it? Wizard productions presents the number one heat wave: AUGUST RUSH! August Rush: Yeah! Me! That's me!
Wizard: Deal's off. August Rush: But Wizard, I have to play! I have to let them hear! Wizard: [Grabs August and throws him against the fence] You play when I say play. You breathe when I say breathe! You got that boy? You forget about your parents! T...
Wizard: When I say run, you run, okay?
Hope: [as August enters the room] You the one slept under my bed? August Rush: [watches her as she plays the piano] Do you live here? Hope: Me and my grandma do till our boat comes in. Do you like music? August Rush: More than food. Hope: [looks at h...
Lyla Novacek: I know it sounds crazy, but I can hear him! I swear I can hear him!
Lyla Novacek: I'm trying to find my son. Woman at Desk: Name? Lyla Novacek: [in tears] I don't know.
