Jack Yellen quotes

“Happy days are here again, The skies above are clear again: Let us sing a song of cheer again, Happy days are here again!”
-- Jack Yellen

Source : "Happy Days Are Here Again" (song) (1929)

#Song Quotes #Cheer Quotes #Sky Quotes

“I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.”

“If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.

“I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.”

“All my songs are where I am.”

“And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.”

“People now are beginning to cheer for me. I've never heard that before. .. Maybe things are turning a bit.”

“I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!”

“Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.155

“But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.”

“There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.”