Ira Gershwin famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Song #Music Is #Without Music
I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...
-- Ira Gershwin

#Add #Monograms
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?
-- Ira Gershwin

#Music #Men #Rhythm
Oh, lady be good To me.
-- Ira Gershwin

#Be Good
Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.
-- Ira Gershwin

#Song #Summertime #Cotton
What usually comes first is the contract.
-- Ira Gershwin

#Agreement #Firsts #Contracts
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

#Summer #Baby #Daddy
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
-- Ira Gershwin

#Music #Baptism #Suffering
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
-- Ira Gershwin

#Music #Very Happy #Agree
Love is sweeping the country.
-- Ira Gershwin

#Music #Country #Love Is
S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!
-- Ira Gershwin

#Care #Wonderful #Should
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

#Nice #Hands #Sky
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!
-- Ira Gershwin

#Tea #Way #Hats
There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.
-- Ira Gershwin

#Watches #Longing #Turns
If you'll promise not to cry, Baby, I will kiss you by-and-byâ€”Maybe! Though you're six feet three, You will always be Nothing but a Baby, dear, to me.
-- Ira Gershwin

#Baby #Kissing #Feet
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 phrasesâ€” 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.
-- Ira Gershwin

#Latin #Guy #Greek
The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke
-- Ira Gershwin

#Generations #Jokes
Life is one long jubilee.
-- Ira Gershwin

#Long #Jubilee #Life Is

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