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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

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Yip Harburg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: April 8
Died: 1981
Died: March 5
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Screenwriter
Songwriter
Edgar Yipsel Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg
E. Y. Harburg
Isidore Hochberg
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My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.
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Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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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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Music gives 'wings' to words.
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
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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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Leave the atom alone.
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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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Follow the yellow brick road.
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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
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Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?
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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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