Yip Harburg Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Words make you think a thought.
  Music makes you feel a feeling.
  A song makes you feel a thought.

  Yip Harburg

  Music, Dance, Wisdom

• 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

  Song, Heart, Brain

• 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

  Country, Song, Philosophy

  Yip Harburg's letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1950.

• Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.

  Yip Harburg

  Song, Heart, Pulse

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