Ira Gershwin Quotes

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

Life is one long jubilee.

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

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

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

What usually comes first is the contract.

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

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

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

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

Love is sweeping the country.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble.

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

I got daisies In green pastures.

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.

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.

Aladdin's lamp is mine.

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

Oh, lady be good To me.