Gershwin Quotes
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It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.
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Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your mama's good lookin' So hush little baby now don't you cry One of these mornin's You're gonna rise up singin' Then you'll spread your wings And take to the sky But til that mornin' Ain't nothin' can harm you With your daddy And your mammy standin' by.
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I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?
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I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.
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What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!
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All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
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It is always possible to create something original.
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Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?
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I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter.
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Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.
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Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
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I love Gershwin. I love musicals.
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Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.
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I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.
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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
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The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.
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I did my New York debut at 21. It was “On the Town” at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.
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Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed glasses..Ira had a kid brother who wore high stiff collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls.
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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
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For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it!
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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
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He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.
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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
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Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.
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Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
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George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.
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Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.
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Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.
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Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind, part of the 20th-century folk-song tradition in the sense that they are popular music which has been spread by oral tradition (for many must have sung a Gershwin song without having any idea who wrote it).
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