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George Gershwin has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere...
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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…
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The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.
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The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else…
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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…
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A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its…
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Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.
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When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz…
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An entire composition written in jazz could not live.
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When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.
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What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!
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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…
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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and…
— Alan Lomax
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When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the…
— Paul Robeson
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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…
— George Gershwin
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Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin.…
— David Eugene Edwards
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It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical…
— Kurt Weill
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step,…
— Barry McGuire
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I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
— Lara Spencer
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I always thought I was singing American folk music.
— Lonnie Donegan
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
— Van Morrison
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