Quotes by Ira Gershwin - Page 1

Aladdin's lamp is mine.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Aladdin's Lamp
Lamps
Mines
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Oh, lady be good To me.
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Life is one long jubilee.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Jubilee
Life Is
Long
Life Long
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Love is sweeping the country.
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Music
Country
Love Is
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I got daisies In green pastures.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Daisies
Green
Green Pastures
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But the age of miracles hadn't passed.
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Age
Miracle
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What usually comes first is the contract.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Agreement
Contracts
Firsts
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I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.
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Lambs
Littles
Woods
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I'd like to add her initial to my monogram.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Add
Initials
Monograms
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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Music
Gershwin
Song
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I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Patience
Causes
Guy
Waiting
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In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble.
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Change
Gershwin
May
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S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!
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Care
Should
Wonderful
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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Happiness
Music
Agree
Agreement
Very Happy
Demanding
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I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Music
Men
Gershwin
Rhythm
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They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Columbus
Public Opinion
World
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Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Cotton
Song
Summertime
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The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Generations
Jokes
Nations
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There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Longing
Turns
Watches
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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Change
Encouragement
Music
Baptism
Cancer
Initiation
Regeneration
Suffering
Unspeakable
Deep
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Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Hands
Nice
Sky
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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!
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Hats
Tea
Way
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
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Respect
Age
Contempt
Hair
Inspired
Old Age
Virtue
Nothing
Adds
Due
Old
Takes
Vice
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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.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Baby
Feet
Kissing
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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.
Ira Gershwin / Lyricist
Baby
Sea
Summer
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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.
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Greek
Guy
Latin
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