Sammy Cahn Quotes

• Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.

  Sammy Cahn

  Joy, Praying

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• I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

  Sammy Cahn

  Song, Writing, Years

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• I don't write songs, songs write me.

  Sammy Cahn

  Song, Writing, Writing Songs

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• The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

  Sammy Cahn

  Lying, Golf, Lockers

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• I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast
  I fall in love too terribly hard, for love to ever last
  My heart should be well schooled, 'cause I've been fooled in the past
  And still I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast

  Sammy Cahn

  Falling In Love, Heart, Past

  Sammy Cahn (2002). “Sammy Cahn's Rhyming Dictionary”, p.38, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Love is lovelier The second time around.

  Sammy Cahn

  Love Is, Second Time Around

  "The Second Time Around" (song) (1960)

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• If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.

  Sammy Cahn

  Song, Holiday, Men

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• Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.

  Sammy Cahn

  Loneliness, Night, Week

  Sammy Cahn (2002). “Sammy Cahn's Rhyming Dictionary”, p.39, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I'll remember this to my grave. We all walked into a room to see the screen tests. The first screen test was Marion Hutton's. Then came Janis Paige [who ended up with a part in the film]. Then on the screen came Doris Day. I can only tell you, the screen just exploded. There was absolutely no question. A great star was born and the rest is history.

  Sammy Cahn

  Stars, Tests, Rooms

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• The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

  Sammy Cahn

  Music, Song, America

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