Famous lines from The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

The lines

20 lines. Famous lines like these turn up in the daily game.

• You do?Helen Burger

• What is?Helen Burger

• Five saxes?Si Schribman

• Yes, I guess I do.Helen Burger

• No, you sure can't.Glenn Miller

• Sort of like a person.Helen Burger

• I guess I better take it.Glenn Miller

• Well, how do you get this different sound?Helen Burger

• Alright, alright, let's have the five saxes right in there..Glenn Miller

• A band oughta have a sound all of its own, oughta have a personality.Glenn Miller

• I don't know. I don't know. I haven't found it yet. But someday I'm gonna find it.Glenn Miller

• You think I'm kinda rudderless, don't you? Wandering over the country with the band.Glenn Miller

• But I'm not, though. I know exactly where I'm going. I know exactly what I want to do.Glenn Miller

• Fine, fine. Go get radical. But just get going! I gotta have something in here making a noise the kids can dance to. That's all.Si Schribman

• I'm not gonna be a sideman all my life, a trombone player. I'm I'm gonna have a band all of my own. I'm gonna play my own kind of music.Glenn Miller

• Besides, a lot of your friends are in the band: Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Babe Russin. It's a great chance, Glenn, and it'll run all season.Don Haynes

• You see, the arrangements, the way you score each one of the individual instruments. Some bands have that sound already, like Pollack, but it's not the right sound, not for me.Glenn Miller

• Red Nichols is getting together a pit band for a new musical, "Girl Crazy". I know you're still looking for that sound but it's been two years now. You're not gonna find it on an empty stomach.Don Haynes

• Their love made such wonderful music!

• It was a time that changed the world. And one man put it to music.