Jerry Herman

“The best of times is now.”

“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!”

“I am what I am, I am my own special creation.”

“There's no tune like a show tune.”

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

“Open a new window, open a new door.”

“We need a little Christmas, right this very minute.”

“I write songs to make people feel good.”

“Before the parade passes by.”

“I want to be remembered as a songwriter who could lift a listener's spirits.”

“I don't think you can be a creator of musicals without an enormous amount of optimism.”

“Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out.”

“Music has been my entire life. It's my hobby.”

“All I wanted was to write simple, hummable, memorable tunes.”

“I am a composer-lyricist, and I have to be in charge of my own work.”