Yip Harburg quotes:

Follow the yellow brick road.

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve; he made 'em both a little bit naive.

We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way. All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today . Socrates and Galileo , John Brown, Thoreau , Christ , and Debs Heard the night cry down with traitors, and the dawn shout "Up the reds!

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.

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.

They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.

Someday I'll wish upon a star.

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.

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.

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of Lower East Side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles. Ira had a kid brother who wore stiff high collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"

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.

Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be.

Leave the atom alone.

Music gives 'wings' to words.

My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?

How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?

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 .

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.

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.

Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

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

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.

The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.

There ought to be a law against necessity.

This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.

Virtue is its own revenge.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

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.

WHERE and WHEN :;Are lost in space. THERE and THEN :;Do not embrace. So before we disappear Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.