Ends Quote by Maurice Ravel

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

— Maurice Ravel

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

— Maurice Ravel

When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'

— Burton Lane

“If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple…

— Sonia Rumzi

“It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

— Rokia Traore

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

— Howard Dietz

... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz…you are always…

— Keith Jarrett

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

— Robert Schumann

“The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more…

— Frank Zappa

Good melody is never out of fashion

— Robert Bridges

I didn't realize how different our band's senses of melody actually were. I would write a part that just made perfect sense to me,…

— Zach Condon