Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Ira Gershwin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Ira Gershwin.

Last updated on December 24, 2024.

Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century. With George, he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as "I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You", "The Man I Love" and "Someone to Watch Over Me". He was also responsible, along with DuBose Heyward, for the libretto to George's opera Porgy and Bess.

American - Musician | December 6, 1896 - August 17, 1983

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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Ira Gershwin

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Ira Gershwin

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

Ira Gershwin

Life is one long jubilee.

Ira Gershwin

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Ira Gershwin

Love is sweeping the country.

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I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

Ira Gershwin

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.

Ira Gershwin

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

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

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

Ira Gershwin

I'd like to add her initial to my monogram.

Ira Gershwin

Oh, lady be good To me.

Ira Gershwin

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.

Ira Gershwin

S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!

Ira Gershwin

Aladdin's lamp is mine.

Ira Gershwin

If you'll promise not to cry, Baby, I will kiss you by-and-by—Maybe! Though you're six feet three, You will always be Nothing but a Baby, dear, to me.

Ira Gershwin

I got daisies In green pastures.

Ira Gershwin

In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble.

Ira Gershwin

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

Ira Gershwin

What usually comes first is the contract.

Ira Gershwin

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

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

Ira Gershwin

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 phrases— 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.

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Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.

Ira Gershwin

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

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