Ira Gershwin Quotes

Ira Gershwin shares playful, lyrical reflections on love, gratitude and opportunity that sparkle with humor and heart.

30 quotes

1. You've made my life so glamorous, You can't blame me for feeling amorous. 'S wonderful, 's marvellous That you should care for me.

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

3. 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.

4. It ain't necessarily so, It ain't necessarily so. De t'ings dat yo' li'ble To read in de Bible, It ain't necessarily so.

5. Nice work if you can get it, And you can get it if you try.

6. 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!

7. They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round; They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.

8. 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!

9. In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble, They're only made of clay, But our love is here to stay.

10. 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.

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

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

17. 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.

18. I got daisies In green pastures.

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

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

21. What usually comes first is the contract.

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

23. When love walked in with you.

24. Love is sweeping the country.

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

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

27. 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.

28. Life is one long jubilee.

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

30. “Damn it all! What rhymes with rhythm?”