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George Gershwin Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“When the one you love is near
Nothing else can interfere”
— George Gershwin, Who Cares?
Tagged: Love, interference, Unstoppable
“Here's the one thing we'll announce:
Love's the only thing that counts”
— George Gershwin, Who Cares?
Tagged: Love, Love & Contentment, Love Is All We Need
“The day you're mine this world will be in tune
Let's make that day come soon”
— George Gershwin, Soon
Tagged: Love, romance, The Day You're Mine
“The lonely nights will be ended
Soon
Our hearts as one will be blended
I've found the happiness I've waited for
The only girl that I was fated for”
— George Gershwin, Soon
Tagged: Lonely Hearts, Happiness, Waiting For Love, Fate
“Life will be a dream song
Love will be the theme song”
— George Gershwin, Soon
Tagged: Life, Dream, Song, Love
“I'd be so lonely
Where am I gonna go if you turn me down
Why blacken all my skies of blue”
— George Gershwin, My One and Only
Tagged: Lonely, Love, Heartbreak
“Things have come to a pretty pass
Our romance is growing flat
For you like this and the other
While I go for this and that
Goodness knows what the end will be;
Oh, I don't know where I'm at...
It looks as if we two will never be one
Something must be done”
— George Gershwin, Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
Tagged: romance, End, Relationship
“Drop that long face
C'mon, have your fling
Why keep nursing the blues?
If you want this old world on a string
Put on your dancing shoes”
— George Gershwin, Shall We Dance?
Tagged: dance, Blues, Joy
“And when he comes my way
I'll do my best to make him stay”
— George Gershwin, The Man I Love
Tagged: Doing it right, Best effort, Love
“Our romance won't end on a sorrowful note
Though by tomorrow you're gone;
The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote
The melody lingers on”
— George Gershwin, They Can't Take That Away From Me
Tagged: romance, Sorrow, Song, Melody, Love, Love Lingers On
“I got rhythm
I got music
I got my man/girl
Who could ask for anything more?”
— George Gershwin, I Got Rythmn
Tagged: Rythmn, Music, Love, Contentment, Appreciation
“There's a saying old
Says that love is blind
Still we're often told:
'Seek and ye shall find";
So I'd to find a certain lad
I've had
In mind”
— George Gershwin, Someone To Watch Over Me
Tagged: Old Saying, Love, Seek, find, perseverance
“I like to think of music as an emotional science.”
— George Gershwin, The Composer in the Machine Age
Tagged: Music, Science, Emotion
“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, The Composer in the Machine Age
Tagged: Jazz, idenitity, nation, America, Energy
“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, The Composer in the Machine Age
Tagged: Skyscraper, Machine, Experience, Emotion
“Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.”
— George Gershwin, The Composer in the Machine Age
Tagged: composer, Ideas, Music, Instruments
“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, Gershwin in His Time
Tagged: Jazz, American, Folk Music
“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, Tin Pan Alley
Tagged: composer, inspiration, Music, Making Music, invention, Emotion, Feelings
“My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.”
— George Gershwin, American
Tagged: American, Time, Music, aspiration
“I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.”
— George Gershwin, Letter to Isaac Goldberg
Tagged: Music, heart, Noise
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