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Cultural references and parodies
* In the movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, after Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) states that "The snozberries taste like snozberries", Veruca Salt responds in an arrogant tone, "Snozberries? Who ever heard of a snozberry?". Willy Wonka grabs her mouth and replies, "We are the music makers, and We are the dreamers of dreams." A sample of this appears at the beginning of Bassnectar's album, Motions of Mutation.
* In The show American Dad on Season 5 Episode 6.
* Joy Electric's 1996 album We Are the Music Makers is a reference to the first line.
* The track "Nephatiti" from 808 State's album Ex:el, one of many early genre defining explorations in techno music, uses an audio sample of Willy Wonka saying "We are the music makers, and We are the dreamers of dreams."
* The track "Dream Makers" by Kuffdam & Plant uses an audio sample of Willy Wonka saying "We are the music makers, and We are the dreamers of dreams."
* The track "Movers And Shakers" by Eden Burning begins with a setting of the first stanza of the Ode
* The track Nothing Less (Ft. Slug) by Living Legends begins with the sample from Willy Wonka.
* The track "We Are the Music Makers" by Aphex Twin starts off with a low fi sample from Willy Wonka before the drum kicks in.
* Echolyn's 1992 song "A Little Nonsense" contains a sample of Wonka saying the phrase.
* The track "Reflector" on the album Geräuschinformatik by Autoaggression contains the entire first stanza of the Ode, and part of the final stanza.
* The phrase "movers and shakers" commonly used in the realms of business and politics to describe a person who is highly influential within their field (phrase began to gain currency around 1972) was borrowed from this poem.
* The track "Music Makers" by ILS the track starts off with "We are the music makers, and We are the dreamers of dreams."
* "The Music Makers" is a book written by E. V. Thompson. It is set in Ireland, and the first stanza of the ode is printed in the front of the book.
* Quoted at the end of the movie, Last Summer in the Hamptons, 1995.
* The line "We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams" is quoted in the song 'Jenny and Her Vega Machine' from the album 'Gipsy Street' by John McGurgan. The line is also adapted later within the song to "We make the music makers, we make the dreamers out of those dreams".
* The initial verse is used at the start of Raymond E. Feist's novel, Rage of a Demon King.
* In the Hollywood party scene in Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along, the character of Mary, sardonically surveying the other guests, comments "These are the movers, These are the shapers, These are the people That fill the papers."
* The poem is used in the introduction of Elizabeth Hayden's "The Assassin King"
* Lines from the first stanza were used in advertisements for the Dell Studio line of notebook PCs
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