Yip Harburg Quotes

“Yip saw the purpose of the songs as simplifying the plot, “to take the clutter out of too much plot and too many characters . . . to telescope [it all] into one emotional idea. You had to throw out the unnecessary to make the songs work . . . All the songs in Wizard were plot, a kind of revolution in picture musicals.”5 As”
― Harriet Hyman Alonso, Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist

“Most important, in late 1980, Yip joined Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, and Sheldon Harnick at a news conference announcing the creation of a new musical theater program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, a program that has gained international renown.”
― Harriet Hyman Alonso, Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist

“In the process, he created the image of himself he wanted future generations to embrace. Much of what Yip has said, quoted throughout this book, in fact, is a result of the numerous public appearances and radio and television interviews he participated in during the 1970s.”
― Harriet Hyman Alonso, Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist