Sammy Cahn famous quotes

03-23-2025

Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.
-- Sammy Cahn

#Loneliness #Night #Week
Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.
-- Sammy Cahn

#Joy #Praying
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

#Song #Holiday #Men
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

#Stars #Tests #Rooms
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

#Falling In Love #Heart #Past
Love is lovelier The second time around.
-- Sammy Cahn

#Love Is #Second Time Around
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

#Song #Writing #Years
I don't write songs, songs write me.
-- Sammy Cahn

#Song #Writing #Songwriting
The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.
-- Sammy Cahn

#Lying #Golf #Lockers
The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.
-- Sammy Cahn

#Music #Song #America

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