Sheldon Harnick

A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of…

— Sheldon Harnick

Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you…

— Sheldon Harnick

I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct…

— Sheldon Harnick

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

— Sheldon Harnick

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

— Sheldon Harnick

As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's…

— Sheldon Harnick

I have a lot of unknown songs.

— Sheldon Harnick

I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from,…

— Sheldon Harnick

I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.

— Sheldon Harnick

Where you learn things, really, is watching it in front of an audience.

— Sheldon Harnick