Quotes by Sammy Cahn - Page 1

I don't write songs, songs write me.
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Song
Writing
Writing Songs
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Love is lovelier The second time around.
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
Love Is
Second Time Around
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Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.
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Loneliness
Night
Week
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The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.
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Music
America
Song
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Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
Architecture
Song
Dictates
Title
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Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.
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Joy
Praying
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The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
Golf
Lockers
Lying
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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Attitudes
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
Chicago
Nice Things
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
Meticulous
Rhyme
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Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
Coins
Fountain
All Day
Wandering
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I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
Chicago
Praise
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I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
Song
Writing
Years
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
Irresponsible
Syllable
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I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast I fall in love too terribly hard, for love to ever last My heart should be well schooled, 'cause I've been fooled in the past And still I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
Falling In Love
Heart
Past
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My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
First Time
Mario
Singing
Love Time Me
Hand
Looked
Lyric
Sang
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If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
Men
Holiday
Song
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I'll remember this to my grave. We all walked into a room to see the screen tests. The first screen test was Marion Hutton's. Then came Janis Paige [who ended up with a part in the film]. Then on the screen came Doris Day. I can only tell you, the screen just exploded. There was absolutely no question. A great star was born and the rest is history.
Sammy Cahn / Lyricist
Rooms
Stars
Tests
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