Yip Harburg quotes

Follow the yellow brick road. (Yip Harburg)
The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive. View quote
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near. View quote
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When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which. View quote
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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. View quote
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. View quote
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees. View quote
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No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own. View quote
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead. View quote
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Leave the atom alone. View quote
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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. (Yip Harburg)
WHERE and WHEN, Are lost in space. THERE and THEN, Do not embrace. So before we disappear, Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE. View quote
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So I ask each weepin' willow And each brook along the way, And each lad that comes a-whistlin' Tooralay How are things in Glocca Morra This fine day? View quote
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Without your love It's a honky-tonk parade Without your love It's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey world Just as phony as it can be But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me. View quote
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To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss fool you is worse. View quote
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We're off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. You'll find he is a whiz of a Wiz! If ever a Wiz! there was. View quote
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There ought to be a law against necessity. View quote
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Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time. Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? View quote
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Say, its only a paper moon Sailing over a cardboard sea But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me. View quote
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How are things in Glocca Morra? Is that little brook still leaping there? Does it still run down to Donny cove? Through Killybegs, Kilkerry and Kildare? View quote
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And only God who makes the tree Also makes the fools like me. But only fools like me, you see, Can make a God, who makes a tree. (Yip Harburg)
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. View quote
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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 rebs!" View quote
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream. View quote
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Life is short, short, brother! Ain't it the truth? And there is no other Ain't it the truth? You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth! Oh! Ain't it the solid truth? View quote
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