The Music Man Quotes

Professor Harold Hill: That hat... it's scrumptious!

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Charlie Cowell: Don't believe I caught your name.
Harold Hill: Don't believe I *dropped* it.

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Marian Paroo: The librarian hasn't felt much like doing research lately, but she did plenty when you first came here.
Harold Hill: What about?
Marian Paroo: Professor Harold Hill. Gary Conservatory of Music, class of '05. Harold, there wasn't any Gary Conservatory of Music in '05.
Harold Hill: Why, there most certainly w...
Marian Paroo: 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 my love.

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Train conductor: [when a salesman is about to light a cigarette] River City, Iowa! Population: 512. Cigarettes are illegal in this state.

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Zaneeta: Ey, God!

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[in song]
Alma Hix: 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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[repeated line]
Mayor Shinn: You watch your phraseology!

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