Top 39 Harburg Quotes
#1. The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free
Amelia Bloomer
#2. Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.
E.Y. Harburg
#3. A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"
Yip Harburg
#4. My heart wants roots
My mind wants wings.
I cannot bear
Their bickerings.
Yip Harburg
#5. This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.
Yip Harburg
#6. WHERE and WHEN :;Are lost in space. THERE and THEN :;Do not embrace. So before we disappear Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.
Yip Harburg
#7. 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.
Yip Harburg
#8. 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 .
Yip Harburg
#9. 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.
Yip Harburg
#11. They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.
Yip Harburg
#12. If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
Yip Harburg
#14. Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
Yip Harburg
#15. How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
Yip Harburg
#16. You'll never grow old,
And you'll never grow poor,
If you look to the rainbow,
Beyond the next moor.
E.Y. Harburg
#17. No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.
Yip Harburg
#18. 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.
Yip Harburg
#20. 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.
Yip Harburg
#21. It's a Barnum and Bailey world,
Just as phony as it can be.
Yip Harburg
#22. April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
E.Y. Harburg
#23. When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
E.Y. Harburg
#25. When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
E.Y. Harburg
#26. All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
Yip Harburg
#27. The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.
Yip Harburg
#28. Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
Yip Harburg
#29. There ought to be a law against necessity.
E.Y. Harburg
#30. 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.
Yip Harburg
#31. Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?
Yip Harburg
#32. Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
Yip Harburg
#33. The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
E.Y. Harburg
#34. 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.
Yip Harburg
#35. We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
Yip Harburg
#37. Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Yip Harburg
#38. 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.
Yip Harburg
#39. My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
Yip Harburg
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