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George Gershwin
11 quotes
“The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remark quoted in Vernon Duke "Gershwin, Schillinger and Dukelsky: Some Reminiscences", The Musical Quarterly vol. 33 (1947).
“I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Isaac Goldberg; published in Joan Peyser The Memory of All That (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993) p. 80.
“My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Merle Armitage Accent on America (New York: E. Weyhe, 1944) p. 292.
“The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Isaac Goldberg Tin Pan Alley (New York: John Day, 1930) p. viii.
“Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Relation of Jazz to American Music", in Henry Cowell (ed.) American Composers on American Music (1933); reprinted in Gregory R. Suriano (ed.) Gershwin in His Time (New York: Gramercy, 1998) p. 97.
“Modern European composers ... have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An entire composition written in jazz could not live.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I like to think of music as an emotional science.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source