Ira Gershwin quotes
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“A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.”
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“I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...”
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“I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?”
-- Ira GershwinSource : "I Got Rhythm" (song) (1930)
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“Oh, lady be good To me.”
-- Ira GershwinSource : "Oh, Lady, Be Good!" (song) (1924)
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“Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.”
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“Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.”
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“Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.”
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“One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.”
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“S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!”
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“Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.”
-- Ira GershwinSource : "NiceWork If You Can Get It" (song) (1937)
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“The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that -- No, no! They can't take that away from me!”
-- Ira GershwinSource : 1937 'They Can't Take That Away from Me', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).
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“There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.”
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“If you'll promise not to cry, Baby, I will kiss you by-and-by—Maybe! Though you're six feet three, You will always be Nothing but a Baby, dear, to me.”
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“If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrases— They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek.”
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“The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke”
-- Ira Gershwin
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