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George Gershwin
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal
and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin.
George Gershwin composed songs for both Broadway and the classical concert hall.
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George Gershwin:Not many composers have ideas. Far more
of them know how to use strange instruments which do not
require ideas.
#Ideas
George Gershwin:George died on July 11, 1937, but I don't
have to believe that if I don't want to.
#Politicians and Politics
George Gershwin: True music must repeat the thought and
inspirations of the people and the time. My people are
Americans and my time is today. #Music
George Gershwin:I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.
#Music
George Gershwin: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.
#Music
George Gershwin:The European boys have small ideas but
they sure know how to dress 'em up.
#Dress
George Gershwin:I like to think of music as an emotional
science.
#Music
George Gershwin:An entire composition written in jazz could
not live.
#Jazz
George Gershwin: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.
#Psychoanalysis
George Gershwin: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.
#America
George Gershwin: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.
#Politics
George Gershwin:The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's
a string of separate paragraphs stuck together – with a thin
paste of flour and water… I don’t think there has been such an
inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky…but if you
want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.
#Analysis
George Gershwin:It was on the train,with its rattle-ty bang,that
is often so stimulating to a composer that I suddenly heard the
complete construction of the Rhapsody. Comment on his Blue
Rhapsody composition. #Music
George Gershwin:Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to
cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his
new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots
firmly into the new soil.
#Tragedies
George Gershwin:Porgy is…an interesting example of what can
be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that
should never have been accepted on a subject that should
never have been chosen, a man who should never have
attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.
#Divorce
George Gershwin:If jazz should threaten to become a
hampering stereotype, a "tradition" in its turn, George would
go forward to the next fresh impulse that arose in him. You may
call him the King of jazz and associate his name with the lifting
of jazz into musical artistry. Very well, and his best thanks. But
not on that account is he to be thrust into a pigeonhole. George
Gershwin did not begin as a jazzer; he will not end as one.
#Music
George Gershwin:Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal.
His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and
have deservedly become classics of their kind, part of the 20thcentury folk-song tradition in the sense that they are popular
music which has been spread by oral tradition (for many must
have sung a Gershwin song without having any idea who wrote
it).
#Music
George Gershwin: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.
#Music
George Gershwin:My people are American, my time is
today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the
times.
#Music
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