Ira Gershwin Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

What usually comes first is the contract.

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

Life is one long jubilee.

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!

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

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

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

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

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.

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

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

Love is sweeping the country.

In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble.

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

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

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.

I got daisies In green pastures.

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

Aladdin's lamp is mine.

Oh, lady be good To me.