George Gershwin Quotes

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.

George Gershwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 26, 1898 - July 11, 1937

Topics

TalentStartLittlePianoPlaying

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Tony Oller

OpportunityTruthPreparationLuck

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Roman Coppola

HomeBeautifulSisterHotelWedding

You must look like a money person for clients to trust you.

Michael Lee-Chin

TrustMoneyYouLookPersonClients

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

Mitch Daniels

FearIgnoranceMoneyBelieveBlack

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

Loretta Young

MistakesThinkMaking MistakesMaking

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

Deval Patrick

MomentStandPictureYouGoWant

Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.

William Watson

FutureRespectPastBelieveWill

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

Paul Thomas Anderson

GoodAloneJobBookDoingAdapt

Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and they are counted. If they believe that there's a judiciary out there that will make sense of things if there's some challenge. If there isn't rule of law, people will be afraid to vote the way they want to vote.

Timothy D. Snyder

ChallengePeopleLawDemocracyVote

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Nigel Barker

KidEveryonePencilAnythingMake

I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought 'Why are you bitter? You can't just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called 'generic' music when you're not doing anything to challenge that.'

Marina and the Diamonds

MusicChallengeThoughtStandDoing

Everyone has blind spots, and even the brightest people are no exceptions.

Li Lu

PeopleBlindEveryoneEvenSpots

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