“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”
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Famous Yip Harburg Quotes
“My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.”
“A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"”
“Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?”
“We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women”
“No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.”
“My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.”
“It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...”
“Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.”
“Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.”
“When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.”
“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”
“The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.”
“April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.”
“Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.”
“If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?”
“Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?”
“When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.”