Cowboy Bebop - Best Quotes

Cowboy Bepop...there are times when I've gone years without watching Cowboy Bepop and for some strange reason my mind, my memories take me back to that sweet old Jazz sound on this great anime series. Once Session #1 "Asteroid Blues" comes on, my mind transports itself to great times in my life, with great people and most of the time all by myself.
Cowboy Bebop is a 1998 anime series directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, written by KeikoNobumoto and produced by Sunrise. Soundtrack is done by Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts. Music is amazing and the way in which each song is match with each episodes is truly an art.
The storyline is set in the year 2071. At this point in time flying ships cruise the universe and people are able to go to different planets, maybe one day we might get there. Each character has its own story, which unfolds with each episode. I don't believe it's a kids anime. It's anime for adults, with adult stories and adult dialogue. This is what I truly love about some animes they are cartoons for adults.

The adventures of the crew of the spaceship Bebop are a partnership of bounty hunters,called "cowboys", who travel the Solar System trying to apprehend bounties. Some of the Bebop's varied targets include small time thugs, gangsters, hackers known as ("net divers" in slang), religious leaders, psychopaths, genetic experiments, mutant creatures and petty thieves.

If you are someone who loves good jazzy and rock & roll beats, adult dialogue for the mind & someone who can step out of the box, then you will get great pleasure from watching this anime series. Following are my favorite quotes from Cowboy Bebop.

Jet Black: "Humans were meant to work and sweat to earn a living. Those who try to get rich quick or live at the expense of others, all get divine retribution somewhere along the line. That's the lesson. Unfortunately we quickly forget the lessons we've learned and then we have to learn them all over again. - (Toys in the attic)

"Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about."

" I started wailing the blues when the doctor whacked my bottom on the day I was born."

"I’m Jet Black, 36 years old. I’m often told I don’t look 36, but you shouldn't judge people based on appearances… or on how much hair they have."

Spike Spiegel: "Once, there was a tiger striped cat. This cat, died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives. And he had various owners that he didn't really care about, the cat wasn't afraid to die. Then ONE day, he met a white female cat, the two of them fell in love and lived together happily. Well, the year's went by and the white female cat got old and passed away. The Tiger Striped cat cried a million times, then he also died. But this time.....he didn't come back."

"Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture. I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was over."

"Hunger is the best spice they say."

Dialogues 

Faye Valentine: Why do you have to go? Where are you going? What are going to do, just throw your life away like it was nothing?
Spike Spiegel: I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive. I have to do it, Faye.

Jet Black: When you and I first met, you told me something. You said that you had died once, that you had seen death. Why can't you just let it go? Forget the past.
Spike Spiegel: There was a woman, first time I'd found someone who was truly alive. At least, that's what I thought. She was... the part of me I'd lost somewhere along the way, the part that was missing, that I'd been longing for.

Vicious: You should see yourself. Do you have any idea what you look like right at this moment, Spike?
Spike Spiegel: What?
Vicious: A ravenous beast. The same blood runs through both of us. The blood of a beast who wanders, hunting for the blood of others.
Spike Spiegel: I've bled all that kind of blood away.
Vicious: THEN WHY ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?

Meifa: The Universe is composed of the three chi
One is the chi of heaven, the power that comes from The Sun
And one is the chi of earth, the power comes from the planet we all live on. And the last one is the magnetic field that comes from living organisms like us.
Jet: you mean human chi?
Mefia: Yes, from the human body, each body produces a magnetic field, which interacts with the magnetic field from the earth and thats what creates the energy we all use.
Universal Fung Shui is the science that reads this natural energies and applies them to everyday life. - (Boogie Woogie Fung Shui) Session #21 

Cop: Anyways, what were you trying to achieve by blowing everything up?
Teddy Bomber: I only wanted to send out a warning against the needless waste created by capitalism without philisophy, the needless circulation of slanted media and needless tall buildings that symbolize all of this. You see, by distroying this monoliths I intended to remind the world of what the pioneering spirit is all truely about. - (Cowboy Funk) Session #22

Spike: Why do you kill off the members of your own group? whats the point of that?
Dr. Londes: I'm not forcing anything on anyne, they are mearly practicing a faith they to believe in on their own free will. Tell me..why do you think people believe in God, because they want. It's not easy living in such an ugly corrupt world, there is sympathy or nothing to hope for. People are lost so they reach out, don't you get it? God didn't create humans, now its humans who created God.
Dr. Londes: Do you know what the greatest and worst invention that humans ever made was? Television. Television controls people using information and steals their sense of reality. Yes. Now television itself its become the new religion. Television has created the people who believe instantly in dramatic fantasy, who can be controlled by tiny dots of light.
(Jet & Ed arrest him)
Jet: It was all a kid's dream, I guess all he could do was dream. So his dreams turned dark.
Ed: And this time I hope he has sweet dreams.
Dr. Londes: The souls that God has given us, Our spirits. Our spirits which found a way to swim through the immense network can live in the infinity of space. Is not the human body a mere shell, a form of existence all too small and weak for consciousness with such vast reach and potential. (Brain Scratch) Session # 23

Jet: Have you heard the story. A man injures his leg during a hunt, he is in the middle of the Savanna, no means to treat the wound. The leg rods and death approaches. Last minute he is picked up by an airplane, he looks down and sees a land of pure white below him glistening in the light. The mountain is Kilimanjaro, as he gazes down he feels the life flying out of him, and he thinks. That's where he was heading.
Spike: And?
Jet: I hate stories like that. Man only think about the past right before their death as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive. (The Real Folk Blues) Session # 25


Shaman: All living things, every being that walks and breath, each has it own star. When a life is born a new star appears, that is the guardian star, the star that warms this planet. If someone's guardian star is well, the red star you see overhead, the blue star on the horizon and when a life ends, the star falls and disappears.
Jet: Don't say that?
Shaman: His star is about to fall, I have dreamed it.
Jet: This is ridiculous, what am I doing here.
Shaman: Do not fear death. Death is always at your side. When you show fear, it will spring at you faster than light. But if we do not show fear, it cast its eyes upon us gently, and then guides us into infinity.

Random Quotes

"remember Vicious, a snake can't eat a dragon"

Live Action MovieOn 22 July 2008, IF Magazine published an article on its website regarding a rumor of a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie in development by 20th Century Fox. Producer Erwin Stoff said that the film's development was in the early stages, and that they had "just signed it". Keanu Reeves has been confirmed as playing the role of Spike Spiegel.Variety confirmed on 15 January 2009, that the production company Sunrise Animation will be "closely involved with the development of the English language project." The site also confirmed Kenji Uchida, Shinichiro Watanabe, and series writer Keiko Nobumoto as associate producers, series producer Masahiko Minami as a production consultant, and Peter Craig as screenwriter.It is currently slated for release in 2011. - Last paragraph Taken from Wikipedia