57 Movie Quotes about Composers (Sound Clips) - page 3

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

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

21 This is what they call classical music, isn't it? -Yes. -I could tell because there's no vocal.

Marilyn Monroe as The Girl in The Seven Year Itch (1952)

22 You never know how Beethoven is going to affect someone.

Schroeder in Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971)

23 But I just found out they won't allow Beethoven. You'll have to play rock.

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

24 And if you expect to do business with me, we'd better hear a few words from Beethoven.

Quote from Mister Ed

25 Nice music. -Beethoven? I think he will like that. -So do I.

Quote from The Green Hornet (1966)

26 But maybe he's only a little crazy, like painters or composers or some of those men in Washington. We can't be sure until he's been examined.

Quote from Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

27 Everyone talks about how great Beethoven was. Beethoven wasn't so great.

Lucy Van Pelt in A Charlie Brown Christmas

28 Have you ever tried to match your voice against the thunderous voice of Bach? It's most effective!

Vincent Price as Mr. Theodore Evans in Fugue in C Minor (Suspense)

29 Let's see. Debussy. Ravel. Stravinsky... Stravinsky will only scare her.

Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman in The Seven Year Itch (1952)

30 Rachmaninoff! -The second piano concerto. It isn't fair. -Not fair? Why? -Because every time I hear it, I go to pieces. Oh?