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.
— George Gershwin
Life is a lot like jazz - it's best when you improvise.
— George Gershwin
Aladdin's lamp is mine.
— Ira Gershwin
And now a brief public service announcement. Alligators: can they kill your children? Yes.
— Cecil Baldwin
It is always possible to create something original.
— George Gershwin
In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine.
— Richie Gerber
I like to think of music as an emotional science.
— George Gershwin
I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.
— George Gershwin
I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.
— Ira Gershwin
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.
— Maurice Ravel
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Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
— Al Kooper
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
— George Gershwin
The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.
— George Gershwin
Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
— George Gershwin
Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?
— George Gershwin
For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere ...
— George Gershwin
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.
— George Gershwin
I love Gershwin. I love musicals.
— Gloria Estefan
Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky ... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it if you try. — Ira Gershwin
George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don't have to believe it if I don't want to.
— John O'Hara
S wonderful! 'S marvelous!That you should care for me! — Ira Gershwin
It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.
— George Gershwin
I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.
— Shirley Jones
I'm bidin' my time,'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm. — Ira Gershwin
I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.
— Ethel Merman
My people are Americans. My time is today.
— George Gershwin
An entire composition written in jazz could not live.
— George Gershwin
In time the Rockies may crumble,Gibraltar may tumble. — Ira Gershwin
The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke
— Ira Gershwin
Life is one long jubilee.
— Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
— Joni Mitchell
A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
— Ira Gershwin
I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.
— Howard Dietz
Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.
— George Gershwin
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
— Kate Bush
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
— Maurice Ravel
Love is sweeping the country.
— Ira Gershwin
Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.
— Brian Wilson
The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea,
The mem'ry of all that
No, no! They can't take that away from me! — Ira Gershwin
What usually comes first is the contract.
— Ira Gershwin
Damn it all! What rhymes with rhythm?
— Ira Gershwin
There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.
— Ira Gershwin
I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.
— George Gershwin
When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.
— George Gershwin
But the age of miracles hadn't passed.
— Ira Gershwin
As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.
— Douglas Brinkley
I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...
— Ira Gershwin
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
— Ira Gershwin
The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.
— Michael Feinstein
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
— Ira Gershwin
Oh, lady be good To me.
— Ira Gershwin
