George Gershwin Quotes on Technique
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Modern European composers:have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.
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Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.
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I like to think of music as an emotional science.