If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six…

The music changed. We had Irving Berlin and Gershwin and Lerner and Loewe and Cole Porter. Great music. Now we have 'Rent.'

— Cyd Charisse

In the, uh, '30s and '40s, the Brill Building was the hub of, uh, musical activity in Tin Pan Alley in New York City.…

— Al Kooper

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

— Debbie Reynolds

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

— Cole Porter

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

— Jerome Kern

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays…

— Russell Baker

I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived… His songs are…

— George Gershwin

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by…

— Mike Stoller

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was…

— Jerry Leiber

I fell in love with the idea of writing songs when I was a child. I thought I was going to be a journalist…

— Leslie Bricusse

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

— Mel Brooks

Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manners and…

— Jerome Kern

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

— Clarence DeMar