Quotes
 Ritchie Valens: This is like my high school prom.
Bob Morales: Yeah. Except this prom puts out. Bob Keene: Look... it could be worse, you could have been Riki Zuela.
Buddy Holly: The sky belongs to the stars.
Ritchie Valens: My mom reckons I`m going to be a star. And stars don`t fall from the sky.
Ted Quillen: Your wife`s pregnant and in the car with you?
Bob Morales: [on phone] She`s in the car right now!
Ted Quillen: [pause] And what kind of car do you have?
Bob Morales: [on phone] A Rolls Royce!
[Maniacal laughter]
[Last Line]
Bob Morales: [In agony over his brother`s death] RICHIE!
Donna Ludwig: I will never let anyone get in the way of my feelings for you,ever again.
Rosie Morales: He doesn`t want a wife. He wants a love slave, one that he can kick around.
Bob Morales: You know, my old man wasn`t around when I was born.
[takes swig of vodka and grimaces]
Bob Morales: Why should I be?
Bob Keene: Wait Ritchie, look. I understand about friendship... but I`m being honest here. Not everyone in the world gets a shot at the "brass ring." You`re gonna have to ask yourself what`s more important, your friends... or your music.
Ritchie Valens: Walks back to table: My family...
Bob Morales: Come on Rosie, take a hit man! Put a little mota in our love life!
Connie Valenzuela: How could you do this to Ritchie!
Bob Morales: To Ritchie? I did this to me, okay!
Rosie Morales: That`s my Bob, always thinking of others first.
Bob Morales: Shut your goddamn mouth!
Ritchie Valens: Hey man, don`t take it out on Rosie, okay.
Bob Morales: Ritchie, you don`t understand man. You don`t understand a goddamn thing!
[walking Away]
Bob Morales: What do you think, the whole fuckin` world revolves around you!
Bob Morales: I`ve had one sip of beer and I have to admit it taste like piss to me. Want it?
Ritchie Valens: Yeah.
[takes a sip then puts the beer down]
Ritchie Valens: What`s your problem man?
Bob Morales: Old Steve. He always said you`d be somebody and I bought it, too. If that`s the way Steve wanted it that`s the way it was going to be. Even after he told me he wasnt my dad, once I knew the full score, I understood why he treated you just a little bit better than me. I`ll just hang around for the leftovers, like a dog. That`s how much i loved him. Like a goddamn dog.
Ritchie Valens: Bob we don`t have to talk about this right now.
Bob Morales: Shit! No, I want to talk about this and you`re gonna listen to me!
Ritchie Valens: This is a crock of shit man!
Bob Morales: Man he set you up to conquer the world and didn`t leave me shit!
Ritchie Valens: Nobody told you to throw your life away! I`m only sorry I didn`t say something about you be drunk half the time. You did it to yourself!
Bob Morales: Listen to you, coming in here like you own the whole goddamn country. To me you`ll always be that little asshole who followed me around in the sticks.
Ritchie Valens: Yeah, I followed you around man, `cause I thought you were somebody. Then!
Ritchie Valens: Bob. Where`s mom`s new dress?
Bob Morales: What new dress?
Ritchie Valens: The one I asked you to buy her for Christmas.
Bob Morales: Hey, you`re the asshole with all the money, why don`t you buy it yourself!
Ritchie Valens: Bob! Watch it! My guitar, man!
Bob Morales: Sorry. I didnt` know that piece of junk was so important to you.
Ritchie Valens: I even sleep with it.
Bob Morales: Look Rosie, you`re not my wife. Quit being such a drag. What the shit`s eating you anyway?
Rosie Morales: I`m pregnant.
Rosie Morales: Well aren`t you gonna say anything?
Bob Morales: What`s there to say? It`s not my first. Or my last.
Bob Morales: [to Ritchie] You`ve been laid yet? I`m serious, I know what your problem is. Sperm pressure, it`s scientific.
Bob Morales: Don`t be such a dreamer, man.
Ritchie Valens: My dreams are pure rock and roll.
Rosie Morales: [to Bob] I am not your puta!
[Bartender shuts the T.V]
Bob Morales: Hey, what the hell! Man I was watching that! Put that back on!
Bartender: You`ve had enough for one afternoon, buddy.
Bob Morales: Put it back on! That dude`s my brother!
Bartender: Yeah and I`m your Irish uncle.
Trivia
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Many family members from the production team, and Luis Valdez`s and the Valenzuela family, appear in this film.
At the first family party, the old lady sitting by Ritchie and the man is Ritchie Valens` mother, Connie Valenzuela.
In the movie, Esai Morales plays Bob, the older brother of Ritchie Valens, played by Lou Diamond Phillips. In reality, Phillips is older than Morales.
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# According to Lou Diamond Phillips in the VH1 documentary "Behind The Music: The Day The Music Died" (1990), Ritchie Valens` sister was on the set the day they filmed the "coin toss" scene where Ritchie wins (or rather, loses) the chance to fly on the plane with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper. As the scenes were being shot, Ritchie`s sister began to weep uncontrollably and when Phillips tried to console her, she hugged him and sobbed, "Why Ritchie? Why did you get on the plane?"
The actors who played Ritchie, Buddy and The Big Bopper were all much older than the stars they played. Twenty-five-year-old Lou Diamond Phillips played teen-aged Ritchie Valens, 31-year-old Stephen Lee played the 29-year-old Big Bopper, and 33-year-old Marshall Crenshaw played 22-year-old Buddy Holly.
Original title was "Let`s Go".
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# The band playing the traditional folk version of "La Bamba" at the club in Tijuana is, in reality, the band Los Lobos, who performed all of the Ritchie Valens music for the film. The guitar player next to the bass player is David Hidalgo, who provided the singing voice of for Lou Diamond Phillips.
The Indian motorcycle that Bob rides throughout the movie is really a Harley-Davidson Sportster mocked up to look like an Indian.
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