Ira Gershwin Quotes
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Life is one long jubilee.
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It ain't necessarily so,It ain't necessarily so.De t'ings dat yo' li'bleTo read in de Bible,It ain't necessarily so.
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Love is sweeping the country.
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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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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
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You've made my life so glamorous,You can't blame me for feeling amorous.'S wonderful, 's marvellousThat you should care for me.
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Poor Jenny, bright as a penny!Her equal would be hard to find.She lost one dad and mother,A sister and a brother-But she would make up her mind.
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In time the Rockies may crumble,Gibraltar may tumble,They're only made of clay,But our love is here to stay.
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Summertime and the livin' is easy,Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.Oh yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma is good lookin',So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.
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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
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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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I got rhythm,I got music,I got my manWho could ask for anything more?
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Nice work if you can get it,And you can get it if you try.
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You like potato and I like po-tah-to,You like tomato and I like to-mah-to;Potato, po-tah-to, tomato, to-mah-to – Let's call the whole thing off!