#us

The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means. ↗

— Dar Williams

#could #door #everyday #hear music #listens

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song. ↗

— Dar Williams

#amongst #encounter #go #musicians #need

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage. ↗

— Esther Williams

#damage #enough #football #football player #frame

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie. ↗

— Edward Bennett Williams

#got #license #lie #new #new york

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it. ↗

— Esther Williams

#contract #could #drinking #even #faster

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time. ↗

— Esther Williams

#because #comedy #eight #feet #five

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know. ↗

— Esther Williams

#funny #i #i think #just #know

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues. ↗

— Esther Williams

#featuring #illustrated #issues #life #magazine

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. ↗

— Esther Williams

#gift #passage #share #time #unless

A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge. ↗

— Ian Williams

#been #challenge #internet #just #lot