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Strauss quotes

  • Away with the music of Broadway! Be off with your Irving Berlin! Oh, I'd give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter and Gershwin keeps pounding on tin. How can I be civil when hearing this drivel? It's only for night-clubbing souses. Oh, give me the free 'n'easy waltz that is Viennesey And go tell the band if they want a hand the waltz must be Strauss's!

    - Ira originally Israel Gershowitz Gershwin
      'By Strauss'.

  •    You're the top You're the Louvr'Museum You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss.

    - Cole Porter
      'You're theTop', from the show Anything Goes.

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