The Music Man (1962 film) Quotes

The Music Man (1962 film) is a television show that debuted in 1970 . The Music Man ended its run in 1970.

It features Morton DaCosta as producer, Meredith Willson in charge of musical score, and Robert Burks as head of cinematography.

The Music Man (1962 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Music Man (1962 film) is 151 minutes long. The Music Man (1962 film) is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo, Robert Preston as Harold Hill, Pert Kelton as Mrs. Paroo, Paul Ford as Mayor Shinn, Buddy Hackett as Marcellus Washburn, Adnia Rice as Alma Hix, Ronny Howard as Winthrop Paroo, Max Showalter as Charlie Cowell, Susan Luckey as Zaneeta, Charles Lane as Constable Locke, Percy Helton as Train conductor, Peggy Mondo as Ethel Toffelmier, and Monique Vermont as Amaryllis.

The Music Man (1962 film) Quotes

Robert Preston as Harold Hill

• (Salesman on train) "How far you going, friend?"
• (Robert Preston) "Wherever the people are as green as the money -- friend."

• (Robert Preston) "Ladies and gentlemen, either you are closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge, or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a pool table in your community."

• (Robert Preston) "You do sit? Your knees bend and all?"

• (Robert Preston) "Ah, yes, my dear Mrs. Paroo. You must realize that only one out of every 78 adults has a ganglion that reaches the ligature clear down to the apex. This automatically turns your entire face into an amazing embouchure."
• (Pert Kelton) "Well, I never had a sick day in my life, Doctor."

• (Robert Preston) "Oh this is a refined operation son, and I've got it timed down to the last wave of the brakeman's hand on the last train outta town."

• (Robert Preston) "Seventy-six trombones led the big parade / with a hundred and ten cornets close at hand / They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos / the cream of every famous band."

• (Robert Preston) "All of the really great cornet players were Irish; O'Clark, O'Mendez, O'Klein."
• (Pert Kelton) "But professor, we are Irish."
• (Robert Preston) "No? No, really? Well that chinches it. Sign here, madam. Your boy was born to play the cornet -- That'll be $7 earnest money."

• (Robert Preston) "I cheer, and I rave, for the virtue I'm too late to save, the sadder but wiser girl for me -- I smile, I grin when the gal with a touch of sin walks in / I hope and I pray for Hester to win just one more "A" / The sadder but wiser girl's the girl for me / The sadder but wiser girl for me."

• (Robert Preston) "Mothers of River City, heed that warning before it's too late. Watch for the telltale signs of corruption. The minute your son leaves the house, does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime-novel hidden in the corncrib? Is he starting to memorize jokes from Captain Billy's Whiz-Bang? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like "swell" and "so's your old man"? If so my friends, ya got trouble."

• (Robert Preston) "May one call upon you some evening?"
• (Shirley Jones) "Any night this week."

• (Robert Preston) "Think, boys. Think."

• (Robert Preston) "A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man -- only 500"?"

• (Robert Preston) "Could you kindly direct me? Which way is the center of town?"
• (Townsman) "Runs right down the middle of the street."

Susan Luckey as Zaneeta

• (Susan Luckey) "Ye, Gods."

• (Susan Luckey) "It's indecent to meet boys at the footbridge."
• (Tommy Djilas) "First thing after supper?"
• (Susan Luckey) "All right. Ye Gods."

• (Susan Luckey) "Papa, please. It's Capulets like you make blood in the marketplace. Ye gods."
• (Paul Ford) "You watch your phraseology, young woman."

Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo

• (Shirley Jones) "Do you think that I'd allow a common masher; ? Now, really, Mama. I have my standards where men are concerned and I have no intention --"
• (Pert Kelton) "I know all about your standards and if you don't mind my sayin' so there's not a man alive who could hope to measure up to that blend of Paul Bunyan, Saint Pat, and Noah Webster you've concocted for yourself out of your Irish imagination, your Iowa stubbornness, and your li'berry full of books."

• (Shirley Jones) "The librarian hasn't felt much like doing research lately, but she did plenty when you first came here."
• (Robert Preston) "What about?"
• (Shirley Jones) "Professor Harold Hill. Gary Conservatory of Music, gold medal class of '05. Harold, there wasn't any Gary Conservatory of Music in '05."
• (Robert Preston) "Why, there most certainly w --"
• (Shirley Jones) "Because the town wasn't even built until '06. I tore this page out of an Indiana Journal. I was going to use it against you, but now I give to you with all my heart."

• (Shirley Jones) "I've never met a man who sells anvils before."
• (Max Showalter) "Takes a real salesman, I can tell you that. Anvils have a limited appeal, you know."

• (Shirley Jones) "No, please, not tonight. Maybe tomorrow."
• (Robert Preston) "Oh, my dear little librarian. You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering."
• (Shirley Jones) "Oh, so would I."

• (Shirley Jones) "There was love all around, but I never heard it singing. No I never heard it at all, Till There Was You."

• (Shirley Jones) "Mr. Hill."
• (Robert Preston) "Oh, please, please -- "Professor.""

Pert Kelton as Mrs. Paroo

• (Pert Kelton) "You've a gift of blarney about you, and no mistakin' about that."

• (Pert Kelton) "It's a well-known principle that if you keep the flint in one drawer and the steel in the other, you'll never strike much of a fire."

• (Pert Kelton) "When a woman's got a husband, and you've got none, why should she take advice from you? Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare and all them other high-falutin' Greeks."

Paul Ford as Mayor Shinn

• (Paul Ford) "I settle your hash as soon as I get these premises off my oldest girl."

• (Paul Ford) "It's as clear as a buttonhook in the well water."

• (Paul Ford) "He's slipperier'n a Mississippi -- sturgeon."

• (Tommy Djilas) "Mayor Shinn, Your Honor, your daughter and I have been going steady behind your back."
• (Paul Ford) "What?"
• (Tommy Djilas) "We'd rather be doing it in front of your back."
• (Paul Ford) "Doing what?"
• (Tommy Djilas) "Well --"
• (Paul Ford) "Never mind."

• (Paul Ford) "By that time, my fine young feathered -- my feathered young, my feathered fine -- Never mind."

• (Mrs. Shinn) "Now, George."
• (Paul Ford) "Not one poop out of you, Madame."
• (Mrs. Shinn) "I think he means "peep"."
• (Paul Ford) "Yes."

• (Citizens of River City) "Good morning, Mayor Shinn."
• (Paul Ford) "It is if you wanna go around in your drawers all day."

Monique Vermont as Amaryllis

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Buddy Hackett as Marcellus Washburn

• (Buddy Hackett) "Thar she blows."
• (Robert Preston) "Well, I'll do it, but I won't like it."
• (Buddy Hackett) "No, that's not the librarian. That's Mrs. Shinn, the mayor's wife."

• (Buddy Hackett) "Hey, what are you selling now? Last I heard about you, you was in steam automobiles."
• (Robert Preston) "I was."
• (Buddy Hackett) "Well, what happened?"
• (Robert Preston) "Somebody actually invented one."
• (Buddy Hackett) "No."

• (Buddy Hackett) "This is where I work."
• (Robert Preston) "You mean you live in this town?"
• (Buddy Hackett) "Yeah, I like it, too. I mean it's not Brooklyn, New York. It's not the City of Homes and Churches and --"
• (Robert Preston) ""Brooklyn"? Marce, this isn't even Dubuque."

Percy Helton as Train conductor

• (Percy Helton) "River City, station stop River City. Just crossed the state line into Iowa. Population of River, twenty-two hundred and twelve. Cigarettes illegal in this state."

Max Showalter as Charlie Cowell

• (Max Showalter) "Don't believe I caught your name."
• (Robert Preston) "Don't believe I dropped it."

• (Max Showalter) "Who do you think you're protectin'? That guy's got a gal in every county in Illinois and that's 102 counties. Not countin' the piano teachers like you he cozies up to, just keep your mouths shut. Neither one of you's heard the last o' me, girly-girl."

Peggy Mondo as Ethel Toffelmier

• (Peggy Mondo) "I'm Ethel Tofflemier. The pianola girl."

Charles Lane as Constable Locke

• (Charles Lane) "That was pretty good, Professor, but you made a couple of mistakes."
• (Robert Preston) "Oh?"
• (Charles Lane) "Yeah, the billiard hall and that pool table belong to Mayor Shinn."
• (Robert Preston) "Oh."
• (Robert Preston) "What was my other mistake?"
• (Charles Lane) "That Zaneeta, she's the mayor's oldest girl."

Adnia Rice as Alma Hix

• (Adnia Rice) "Oh yes, that woman made brazen overtures, with a gilt-edge guarantee / She had a golden glint in her eye and a silver voice with a counterfeit ring / Just melt her down and you'll reveal / a lump of lead as cold as steel / Here, where a woman's heart should be."

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