- Slip Mahoney: Well, fellas. It's pretty oblivious we're gonna have to raise some money to pay Louie back before he flips his melon. Any suggestions?
- Chuck: Well, uh, let's go to work.
- Slip Mahoney: "Work?" I asked for suggestions, not sarcasm.
- Horace DeBussy 'Sach' Jones, aka The Bowery Thrush: Gee, Chief, my throat hurts.
- Slip Mahoney: Maybe if I cut your throat it would STOP hoitin'.
- Horace DeBussy 'Sach' Jones, aka The Bowery Thrush: That would be manslaughter.
- Slip Mahoney: Since when are you a man?
- Slip Mahoney: Don't be so cynical. Try to remember dat old sayin': "He who laughs de most sometimes winds up by laughin' the least."
- Slip Mahoney: Well, to tell ya the truth, Mr. Martin wasn't in a very receptacle mood.
- Horace DeBussy 'Sach' Jones, aka The Bowery Thrush: Beside that, he threw us out.
- Slip Mahoney: You mean the boys haven't deformed you of the news?
- Gabe Moreno: These kids haven't told me a thing.
- Slip Mahoney: Gabe, seems that through some smirk of fate, our pal Sach here has cultivated a voice like a bell.
- Butch: And this bell has no crack in it.
- Gabe Moreno: Sach has a voice?
- Butch: Naturally I got a voice.
- [Gabe laughs]
- Slip Mahoney: Well, it's an apparel effect that you're not convinced. As the old sayin' goes, "I can see that the puddin's gonna have to have some proof."
- Slip Mahoney: Sach, I know I hoid what I hoid wid my own tin ears, but just to make sure I ain't havin' no delusions, would you mind tellin' me if those silvery tones was actually emulatin' from your kisser?
- Slip Mahoney: Boys, t'rough some creek o' nature, our pal Sach here has developed the greatest voice since Caruso! He sounds like Crosby, Jolson, Jessel and the Andrews Sisters all on the same record.
- Louie Dumbrowsky: So what? So he can sing. Singers are worth a dime a gross.
- Slip Mahoney: Louie, how can you talk dat way about a voice that can someday be MORTIFIED?
- Gabe Moreno: I'll get him auditions in every producer's office in town.
- Slip Mahoney: Tell me somethin'.
- Gabe Moreno: Yeah.
- Slip Mahoney: What do these auditions pay?
- Gabe Moreno: In show business they're for nothin'.
- Slip Mahoney: They're for nothing? Well, then we'll fracture a precedent.
- Slip Mahoney: I wanna talk to Mr. Martin. If you'd be kind enough to lead de way, we'll precede you.