Yiddish Quotes

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
Carlos Santana

Music, Time, Long

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
Theodore Bikel

Give, Fighting, Chance

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
Stephen Greenblatt

Father, Long, Tell

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
Mike Myers

Talk, Language, Spoke

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
Mandy Patinkin

Great, Through, Public

The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
David Steinberg

Word, Whether, Common

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
Roy Blount, Jr.

Around, Themselves, English

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.
Jerry Leiber

Humor, Black, Stories

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.
Joseph Greenberg

Family, Mother, Father

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