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Oscar Hammerstein II

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A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it - A song's not a song 'til you sing it - Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay - Love isn't love 'til you give it away!


— Oscar Hammerstein II


#love

If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?


— Oscar Hammerstein II


#dreams

I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it. ~ Oscar Hammerstein


— Oscar Hammerstein II


#life-lessons #music #writing #beauty

Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.


— Oscar Hammerstein II


#home #love #sentiment #sentimental #home

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.


— Oscar Hammerstein II


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You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?


— Oscar Hammerstein II


#dream #gonna #gotta #how #make

The dearest things I know are what you are.


— Oscar Hammerstein II


#i #know #things #you

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!


— Oscar Hammerstein II


#bell #give #heart #love #put

There is nothin' like a dame.


— Oscar Hammerstein II


#like #nothin

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.


— Oscar Hammerstein II


#drowns #man #sometimes #swim #than






About Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Hammerstein II Quotes




Did you know about Oscar Hammerstein II?

The York Theatre Company in New York City is the Administrator of the award. Laird wrote that this was a "show that like 'Show Boat' became a milestone so that later historians writing about important moments in twentieth-century theatre would begin to identify eras according to their relationship to 'Oklahoma. Several albums of Hammerstein's musicals were named to the "Songs of the Century" list as compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) the National Endowment for the Arts and Scholastic Corporation:
The Sound of Music — # 36
Oklahoma! — # 66
South Pacific — # 224
The King and I — # 249
Show Boat — # 312


Awards and legacy
Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song—in 1941 for "The Last Time I Saw Paris" in the film Lady Be Good and in 1945 for "It Might as Well Be Spring" in State Fair.

Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. : /ˈhæmərstaɪn/; July 12 1895 – August 23 1960) was an American librettist theatrical producer and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song.

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