Yip Harburg quotes
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“They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.”
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“It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be.”
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“My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.”
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“All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.”
-- Yip HarburgSource : "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2004.
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“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 HarburgSource : "Rhymes for the Irreverent (Agnostic)". Book by Yip Harburg, 1965.
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“Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?”
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“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 HarburgSource : "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Scott Jacobs, The Week Behind, September 23, 2009.
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“The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.”
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“If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?”
-- Yip HarburgSource : Song: Over the Rainbow
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“When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.”
-- Yip HarburgSource : Title of song (1947)
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“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.”
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“Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.”
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“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”
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“The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve; he made 'em both a little bit naive.”
-- Yip HarburgSource : "Finian's Rainbow (The Begat)". Book by Yip Harburg and Fred Saidy, 1947.
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“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 .”
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“Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way. All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today . Socrates and Galileo , John Brown, Thoreau , Christ , and Debs Heard the night cry down with traitors, and the dawn shout "Up the reds!”
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“WHERE and WHEN :;Are lost in space. THERE and THEN :;Do not embrace. So before we disappear Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.”
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“No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.”
-- Yip HarburgSource : "The Americans". Book by David Frost, 1970.
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“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.”
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“We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women”
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“Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?”
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“A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"”
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“My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.”
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“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.”
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“When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.”
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“April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.”
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“How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?”
-- Yip Harburg
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