Red Redding

"That's the beauty of music. They can't take that away from you."

"The important thing is the music. As long as you can hear it, you're never really finished."

"Get your head out of your ass, Andy. It's the only thinking you'll ever do."

"I'm the only guilty man in Shawshank. The rest are innocent."

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."

"In the spring, I've seen it happen that a new life comes to the world."

"You know what they put in your cell when you come to Shawshank? They put your hope in there with you."

"A man's got to have a code, got to have a say in how things are."

"There's not much to tell. I'm the only guilty man in Shawshank."

"You need it so you don't forget that there are things in this world that have no price."

"Believe it or not, that's the most honest thing I've heard in years."

"Get yourself a friend. It's a good thing to have in a place like this."

"I could use a friend."

"Life's pretty good. It can be pretty good if you let it happen."

"I guess I'm the only guilty man in here. The rest are all innocent."

"Prison is just a building full of people who are all on the same journey."

"A man transposes himself into a piece of music."

"I still have a harmonica. That's a treasure in a place like Shawshank."

"Some things you just can't get around. Some people like to sleep in a bed at night. Some people like it on the ground. Some people like it the way they want it."

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things."

"You know what I'm talking about. A man needs a friend."

"I realize now there's only one way to deal with an angry man. You've got to take him seriously."

"There's a guy who shows up on the television once a month. He always tells you that the most important thing is hope."

"A man working at a job he hates is the same as a man serving time."

"Some birds you gotta let out of their cages so they can fly."

"Forty-some years I been doing this job, and I've learned a lot of things about people."

"You learn that it's a funny world. All you do is keep your head down and your mouth shut."

"I'll tell you something. It makes no sense."

"The greatest gift we have is the ability to choose our attitude about things."

"Some guys, they can't find their way to the beach."