Yiddish Quotes

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

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.

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

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

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.