Quotes About The Great American Songbook

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

Barry Manilow

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.

Simon Sinek

#5. They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.

Heather Brewer

#6. 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

#7. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#8. The world is an astonishing place, and the idea that we have in our possession the basic tools needed to understand it is no more credible now than it was in Aristotle's day.

Thomas Nagel

#9. Well Kami, I told you before that I wasn't chasing you. But now ... now I am. So it's better that I know your interest isn't elsewhere.

S.L. Jennings

#10. Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

Edmund Spenser