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George Gershwin Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“I got rhythm
I got music
I got my man/girl
Who could ask for anything more?”
— George Gershwin, I Got Rythmn
Tagged: Rythmn, Music, Love, Contentment, Appreciation
“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.”
— George Gershwin, Gershwin in His Time
Tagged: Jazz, American, Folk Music
“I'd be so lonely
Where am I gonna go if you turn me down
Why blacken all my skies of blue”
— George Gershwin, My One and Only
Tagged: Lonely, Love, Heartbreak
“The lonely nights will be ended
Soon
Our hearts as one will be blended
I've found the happiness I've waited for
The only girl that I was fated for”
— George Gershwin, Soon
Tagged: Lonely Hearts, Happiness, Waiting For Love, Fate
“Here's the one thing we'll announce:
Love's the only thing that counts”
— George Gershwin, Who Cares?
Tagged: Love, Love & Contentment, Love Is All We Need
“A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.”
— George Gershwin, The Composer in the Machine Age
Tagged: Skyscraper, Machine, Experience, Emotion
“When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.”
— George Gershwin, The Composer in the Machine Age
Tagged: Jazz, idenitity, nation, America, Energy
“There's a saying old
Says that love is blind
Still we're often told:
'Seek and ye shall find";
So I'd to find a certain lad
I've had
In mind”
— George Gershwin, Someone To Watch Over Me
Tagged: Old Saying, Love, Seek, find, perseverance
“My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.”
— George Gershwin, American
Tagged: American, Time, Music, aspiration
“And when he comes my way
I'll do my best to make him stay”
— George Gershwin, The Man I Love
Tagged: Doing it right, Best effort, Love
“I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.”
— George Gershwin, Letter to Isaac Goldberg
Tagged: Music, heart, Noise
“The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.”
— George Gershwin, Tin Pan Alley
Tagged: composer, inspiration, Music, Making Music, invention, Emotion, Feelings
“I like to think of music as an emotional science.”
— George Gershwin, The Composer in the Machine Age
Tagged: Music, Science, Emotion
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