Ira Gershwin Quotes

• A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

  Ira Gershwin

  Music, Song, Gershwin

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• One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

  Ira Gershwin

  Happiness, Music, Agreement

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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.

  Ira Gershwin

  Latin, Guy, Greek

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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 Gershwin

  Nice, Hands, Sky

  "NiceWork If You Can Get It" (song) (1937)

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• The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

  Ira Gershwin

  Generations, Jokes, Nations

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• What usually comes first is the contract.

  Ira Gershwin

  Agreement, Firsts, Contracts

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• But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

  Ira Gershwin

  Miracle, Age

  'A Foggy Day' (1937 song; music by George Gershwin)

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• Life is one long jubilee.

  Ira Gershwin

  Long, Jubilee, Life Is

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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 Gershwin

  Tea, Way, Hats

  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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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  Ira Gershwin

  Change, Music, Encouragement

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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.

  Ira Gershwin

  Watches, Longing, Turns

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• S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!

  Ira Gershwin

  Care, Wonderful, Should

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• I'm bidin' my time,
  'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

  Ira Gershwin

  Patience, Guy, Waiting

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• I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

  Ira Gershwin

  Music, Men, Rhythm

  "I Got Rhythm" (song) (1930)

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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.

  Ira Gershwin

  Summer, Baby, Sea

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• They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
  When he said the world was round.

  Ira Gershwin

  Public Opinion, World, Columbus

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• Love is sweeping the country.

  Ira Gershwin

  Music, Country, Love Is

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• In time the Rockies may crumble,
  Gibraltar may tumble.

  Ira Gershwin

  Change, May, Gershwin

  1938 'Love Is Here to Stay', sung by Kenny Baker in The Goldwyn Follies (music by George Gershwin).

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• Summertime
  And the livin' is easy,
  Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.

  Ira Gershwin

  Song, Summertime, Cotton

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• I'd like to add her initial to my monogram.

  Ira Gershwin

  Add, Monograms, Initials

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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.

  Ira Gershwin

  Baby, Kissing, Feet

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• I got daisies
  In green pastures.

  Ira Gershwin

  Green, Green Pastures, Daisies

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• I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.

  Ira Gershwin

  Lambs, Littles, Woods

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• Oh, lady be good To me.

  Ira Gershwin

  Be Good

  "Oh, Lady, Be Good!" (song) (1924)

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• Aladdin's lamp is mine.

  Ira Gershwin

  Lamps, Aladdin's Lamp, Mines

  "Song: 'Long Ago And Far Away'". 1944.

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