"An entire composition written in jazz could not…" — George Gershwin
"An entire composition written in jazz could not live."
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30 Quotes by George Gershwin
George Gershwin has 30 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass…
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More Composition Quotes
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one of 417 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult…
— Nick Clegg
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When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together.…
— Tadao Ando
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To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.
— Christopher Tunnard
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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition,…
— Joseph Addison
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In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of…
— Julia Cameron
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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to…
— Maurice Ravel
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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to…
— Isaac Newton
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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars,…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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