Love Quote by Bob Fosse

Sugarcoating with a razor blade: that is the trick hiding in Bob Fosse's "bowl of cherries". On the surface, it sells a vaudeville-sized shrug - stop brooding, keep it light, laugh it off. But coming from Fosse, the patron saint of seductive darkness in jazz hands, the cheer reads as performance more than philosophy. "Don't take it serious" isn't innocence; it's survival. The line knows how quickly seriousness curdles into self-destruction, and it offers entertainment as anesthesia.

The repetition does the heavy lifting. "Life is just a bowl of cherries" circles back like a chorus because that's how showbiz coping works: you repeat the number until you believe it, or until the audience does. Then he snags the listener with slantwise wordplay: "live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love". It's not Hallmark; it's choreography. The verbs pivot and trade partners, turning emotion into steps you can execute even when feeling is complicated. Love becomes something you can laugh at, then something you can laugh with, then something you can manufacture by laughing - a feedback loop of attitude as technique.

Context matters: Fosse built a career staging glamour as a mask for exhaustion, desire, and dread. His work often insists that the smile is real and fake at the same time. This quote lands like a backstage note to himself: keep moving, keep the bit going, because the mystery doesn't stop for anyone - and neither does the music.