A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
--Ira Gershwin
Damn it all! What rhymes with rhythm?
--Ira Gershwin
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
--Ira Gershwin
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you.
--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 never realized how good our music was until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing it.
--Ira Gershwin
I've always considered perfection, or as close as I could come to it, as my armor. And I know that even if the lyric failed I had done my very best.
--Ira Gershwin
In time the Rockies may crumble,
Gibraltar may tumble,
They're only made of clay,
But our love is here to stay.
--Ira Gershwin
Life is one long jubilee.
--Ira Gershwin
Lyrics are written up to public taste, and that's a high target... The words mustn't be precious or condescending... A writer can't get away with the 'blue/you' sort of stuff any longer... A good lyric should be rhymed conversation.
--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
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
--Ira Gershwin
There's a somebody I'm longing to see
I hope that he turns out to be
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me.
--Ira Gershwin
What usually comes first is the contract.
--Ira Gershwin
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