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• For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere...
• Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We…
• The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.
• The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else…
• Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the…
• A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its…
• Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.
• When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz…
• An entire composition written in jazz could not live.
• When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.
• What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!
• 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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