Creative Quotations from Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Irving Berlin
(1888-1989) born on May 11

US composer. He led the evolution of the popular song from the early ragtime and jazz eras through the golden age of musicals; wrote more than 800 pop songs.

Got no check books, got no banks.
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night."

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

"The world would not be in such a snarl,
had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl."

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

"Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Annie Get Your Gun," 'I Got the Sun in the Mornin""
R:	"In "Vogue," (NY), 1 Nov 1962."
A:	Telegram to Groucho Marx on his seventy-first birthday
N:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
K:	Giving advice to Cole Porter; Attributed.