Quotes by Yip Harburg - Page 1

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Yip Harburg / Lyricist
Dance
Music
Wisdom
Song
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Leave the atom alone.
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Science
Atoms
Leave Me Alone
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Virtue is its own revenge.
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Drinking
Integrity
Revenge
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Music gives 'wings' to words.
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Giving
Wings
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Follow the yellow brick road.
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Brick Roads
Bricks
Yellow
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Someday I'll wish upon a star.
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Desire
Stars
Wish
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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Wicked
Witch
Wizard Of Oz Wizard
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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Dream
Fellows
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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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Law
Ought
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How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
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Fine
Fine Day
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All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
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Hero
Today
Tomorrow
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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Girl
Life
Cheating
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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Funny
Inspirational
Moon
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Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
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Men
Greatness
Way
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It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...
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Phony
World
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Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?
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Health
Flower
Tree
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Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
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Heart
Pulse
Song
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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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Flying
Littles
Rainbow
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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Holiday
Paris
Tree
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Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
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Brother
Dimes
Railroads
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My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.
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Heart
Roots
Wings
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
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Ems
Littles
Lord
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A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"
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Believe
Children
Mother
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No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.
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Matter
Thrones
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We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
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Women
Amelia
Eagles
Emancipation
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My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
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Country
Immigration
Trouble
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When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.
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Idle
Poor
Rich
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This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.
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Government
Helping
People
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The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.
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Men
Space
Would Be
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They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.
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Valentine
Lost Love
Moon
Night
Valentines Day
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WHERE and WHEN, Are lost in space. THERE and THEN, Do not embrace. So before we disappear, Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.
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Space
Kissing
Sweet
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For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.
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Cutting
Missionary
Thankfulness
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No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He, Unswervingly believes in me.
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God
Believe
Matter
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Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse.
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Valentine
Kissing
Littles
Stupid
Valentines Day
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When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.
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Brain
Heart
Song
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I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace which are well worth singing about.
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Journey
Beautiful
Believe
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I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.
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Feelings
Strong
Thinking
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As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.
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Country
Philosophy
Song
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The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.
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Divorce
Phrases
Romance
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Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today. Socrates and Galileo, John Brown, Thoreau, Christ, and Debs, Heard the night cry "Down with traitors!" And the dawn shout "Up the rebs!"
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Greatness
Hero
Night
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Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed glasses..Ira had a kid brother who wore high stiff collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls.
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Girl
Kids
Boys
Brother
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