Great American Songbook Quotes

#1. I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

Tony Bennett

#2. In America, at the beginning of talkies, they pulled Fred Astaire from the theaters and put him on the screen and had all of these great composers write songs for him. They call it the Great American Songbook; I call it the Fred Astaire Songbook because they were written for him.

Tony Bennett

#3. My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

Barry Manilow

#4. It's a man I would die to protect even as he dies to save the soul of this rebellion.

Pierce Brown

#5. Forgive me if I'm wrong. But are you-were you-did you come here on a train from New York about ten years ago?

Christina Baker Kline

#6. I'm a competitor. I never doubt myself.

Rajon Rondo

#7. When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold.

Tip O'Neill

#8. For instance man feels the sensation of joy and depression in the center called solar plexus; however, this does not mean that joy or depression is there, but that this center is sensitive to such experiences.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#9. Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

Maajid Nawaz

#10. I knew damn well I'd never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you're intelligent, it's too embarrassing.

Truman Capote

#11. Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

Lawren Harris

#12. When I retired and told my wife I wanted to go back to Bozeman and fight political corruption and get involved in politics, she decided to stay in Seattle.

Stan Jones

#13. I think I've got to go back to 'Someone to Watch Over Me.' I think it's a perfectly written song. I really do. I think it's one of the great songs in the American Songbook, and it speaks to love in its simplest and purest form.

Rob McClure

#14. Believer, here is encouragement. Art thou praying for some beloved one? Oh, give not up thy prayers, for Christ is "mighty to save." You are powerless to reclaim the rebel, but your Lord is Almighty.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.

Kato Kaelin

#16. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

Li Bai

#17. Boogey boogey boogey

Groucho Marx