17 Quotes by Richard Rodgers

There isn't anything I wanted to do that I haven't. At the same time, there isn't anything I've ever done that I didn't want to do better.

It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together - around the clock if need be - without getting on each other's nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar.

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

I have to laugh to myself. I don't find it work to write music, because I enjoy it. I'd find an evening of bridge hard work because you have to think like hell, and at the end, you get nothing for it.

I just talked to a customer who said he knows that if he builds a conventional distribution center, he won't be able to staff it. The folks who are skilled and ready to work are already working.

Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?

Whenever I feel afraid I hold my head erect and whistle a happy tune.