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

- 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 a violin solo, an unaccompani…

- Sheldon Harnick

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

- 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