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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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Popular Summertime quotes from across the collection:
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
— Russell Baker
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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
— Rupert Brooke
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The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling…
— Billy Campbell
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I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.
— Johnny Cash
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
— Anton Chekhov
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I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.
— Honus Wagner
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I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
— Robert Bridges
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There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have…
— Bat Masterson
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Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of…
— Billy Graham
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for…
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of…
— Carl Linnaeus
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I'm a little drunk on you, and high on summertime.
— Luke Bryan
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