Sammy Cahn

“Three coins in the fountain, each one seeking happiness.”

“Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.”

“It's been a long, long time.”

“Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage.”

“What makes a song a hit is the tune. The tune is the male, the lyric is the female. It's the tune that impregnates the lyric.”

“I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.”

“High hopes, he's got high hopes. He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes.”

“Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away.”

“I'm a commercial writer, not a poet. I'm not a deep thinker.”

“I write for the listener. I don't write for myself.”

“Rhyme, that most monotonous of insistences.”

“My kind of town, Chicago is.”

“All the way, all the way, I'll be loving you all the way.”

“The second time around is so much better, they say.”

“It's magic, you know, when a lyric and a melody come together.”

“You learn to write by writing.”

“I've still got my eyes on the prize, as they say.”

“Guess I'll hang my tears out to dry.”