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Music gives 'wings' to words.

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Yip Harburg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: April 8
Died: 1981
Died: March 5
Composer
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Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Edgar Yipsel Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg
E. Y. Harburg
Isidore Hochberg
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Wings
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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Once I built a railroad now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
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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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Follow the yellow brick road.
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Virtue is its own revenge.
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My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.
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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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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.
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Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
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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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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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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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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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Leave the atom alone.
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Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
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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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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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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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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
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