In memory everything seems to happen to music.

—Tennessee Williams

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About Tennessee Williams

Portrait of Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.

More quotations from Tennessee Williams

Make voyages!—Attempt them!—there's nothing else…

—Tennessee Williams

Back of the sun and way deep under our feet, at the earth's center, are not a couple of noble mysteries but a couple of joke books.

—Tennessee Williams

You said, "They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people." "What," I asked you, "is harmless about a dreamer, and what," I asked you, "is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

—Tennessee Williams

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

—Tennessee Williams

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

—Tennessee Williams

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There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

—Arthur Honegger

What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

—Johnny Carson

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If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

—Marcus Bridgstocke

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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

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