"Speaking of River City in The Music Man……" — Meredith Willson
"Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could."
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11 Quotes by Meredith Willson
Meredith Willson has 11 quotes on this site.
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Where is the good in goodbye?
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From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first…
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again.…
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Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing…
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You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know…
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Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
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Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,'…
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Regarding the current Broadway revival of The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: There will always be those who sniff that…
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There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until…
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More Cities Quotes
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
— Aristotle
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
— Paul Auster
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
— Jane Austen
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.…
— Michelle Bachelet
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
— David Bailey
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
— Alec Baldwin
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