Quote

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

Yip Harburg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Yip Harburg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: April 8
Died: 1981
Died: March 5
Composer
Lyricist
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Edgar Yipsel Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg
E. Y. Harburg
Isidore Hochberg
Heart
Chart
Fever
Pulse
Songs
Nation
Health
Nations
Song

More quotes by Yip Harburg

Image
There ought to be a law against necessity.
Yip Harburg
Image
My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.
Yip Harburg
Image
How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
Yip Harburg
Image
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.
Yip Harburg
Image
My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
Yip Harburg
Image
Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
Yip Harburg
Image
They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.
Yip Harburg
Image
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.
Yip Harburg
Image
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.
Yip Harburg
Image
A Russian child asked his mother : does God know we don't believe in Him?
Yip Harburg
Image
WHERE and WHEN, Are lost in space. THERE and THEN, Do not embrace. So before we disappear, Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.
Yip Harburg
Image
Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
Yip Harburg
Image
April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
Yip Harburg
Image
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 Harburg
Image
This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.
Yip Harburg
Image
It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...
Yip Harburg
Image
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.
Yip Harburg
Image
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 Harburg
Image
Someday I'll wish upon a star.
Yip Harburg
Image
Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
Yip Harburg