American - Composer | September 26, 1898 - July 11, 1937
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
George Gershwin
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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
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I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.
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I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.
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It is always possible to create something original.
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When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.
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Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
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I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.
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Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.
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All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
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Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?
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All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.
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