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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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Yip Harburg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: April 8
Died: 1981
Died: March 5
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Edgar Yipsel Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg
E. Y. Harburg
Isidore Hochberg
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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Virtue is its own revenge.
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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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Leave the atom alone.
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Music gives 'wings' to words.
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It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
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The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.
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No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.
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All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
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My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
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Follow the yellow brick road.
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This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.
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Once I built a railroad now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
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