E.Y. Harburg - biography

“Follow the fellow who follows a dream.”

“Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.”

“There ought to be a law against necessity.”

“When I’m not near the girl I love, I love the girl I’m near.”

“Words make you think a thought.  Music makes you feel a feeling.  A song makes you feel a thought.”

“April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.”

“Follow the yellow brick road.”

“Leave the atom alone.”

“The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made ’em both a little bit naive.”

“When the idle poor become the idle rich, you’ll never know just who is who, or which is which.”

E.Y. Harburg contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
Finian’s Rainbow (1968)