62 Movie Quotes about Composers (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about composers, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Can't cha see me on the stage performing Mozart. Tickling the ivories, 'til they gleam.

Quote from Tangled

2 Directed by Rabbit, written by Rabbit, from an original idea by Rabbit, based on a notion by Rabbit, starring... the others. Oh, yes. Original music composed by Rabbit, too.

Ken Sansom as Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 It had been a wonderful evening. And what I needed now to give it the perfect ending was a bit of the old Ludwig van.

Malcolm McDowell as Alex Delarge in A Clockwork Orange

4 But it's not fair. It's not fair I should feel ill when I hear lovely, lovely Ludwig van.

Malcolm McDowell as Alex Delarge in A Clockwork Orange

5 And your music is so... So different, so exciting. -It isn't Beethoven, Mama, but it sure bounces.

Eva Gabor as Duchess; Dean Clark as Berlioz in The Aristocats

6 Okay. Put down Zombie Mozart, Bach and Beethoven this instant.

Quote from Hotel Transylvania

7 Do you like Beethoven? -What? -If you're gonna hang around here, you've gotta like Beethoven. -All right, but I'll just have a small glass.

Pamelyn Ferdin as Lucy Van Pelt in Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971)

8 What did you say? What do you mean Beethoven wouldn't have made it in Nashville? -Did he have the Nashville sound? Huh? Did he? Did he?

Pamelyn Ferdin as Lucy Van Pelt; Danny Hjelm as Schroeder in Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971)

9 I'm doing a paper on Beethoven. Did you know he never played hockey? -He didn't? -No, he didn't. If he had played hockey, he would have written some hockey music.

Angela Lee as Lucy Van Pelt in It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown

10 And presenting the distinguished court composer, Horatio Felonious Ignacious Crustaceous Sebastian!

Quote from The Little Mermaid (1989)