Jerome Kern Quotes

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

Jerome Kern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 27, 1885 - November 11, 1945

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I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.

Jimmy Smith

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Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.

Jim Sturgess

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If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

Matthew Weiner

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Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That was my time to choreograph the fight in my head, so I needed to be myself.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'

Simon Baker

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I was always stuck in a musical no man's land.

Ritchie Blackmore

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I think people who read Internet blogs are usually trying to fit it in during a busy part of their day, and there's only so much information that you digest. Whereas an experience with a book is a little more comfortable, and I think people are a little more willing to really delve into information.

Mick Foley

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Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

Johnny Mercer

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Under President Obama and Secretary Clinton, they're working hard to change the American dream into the European nightmare. They do celebrate more dependence on the government.

Bobby Jindal

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Physical attributes can make you appealing, but to keep the appeal going, one has to draw from within. You have to be a real person. Your fans and the people you associate with have to be able to see beyond your looks. You have to be a good friend, dutiful son and a good family man.

Arjun Rampal

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Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

Atul Gawande

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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Alfred Hitchcock

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