5 George Gershwin Quotes on Art

George Gershwin quotes on art

1. The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

3. My people are American, my time is today:music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.

11. I like to think of music as an emotional science.

14. 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.

18. 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.