Gershwin Quotations

It is always possible to create something original.

I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.

My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.

European musicians didn't learn popular music, whereas in America we did, ... So you played in bands, you played in orchestras, you played everything. The high-art/low-art idea, that was a very European idea and not much appreciated in America. People like Cole Porter and Gershwin were considered very important composers.

I hear the name Gershwin and I think of the most incredibly talented, prolific, extraordinary composer of the century, and his music is as fresh and vital today as it was when he originally created it.

I played poker every Saturday night for 35 years with him and Lenore, ... I loved them beyond the music. If Mrs. Gershwin were here today, she would say, 'Isn't this peachy?'

In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble.

If he'd been around 75 years ago, George Gershwin would have written about him 'the way you wear your hat, the way you raise your knee.'

I love Gershwin. I love musicals.

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

You can sing Gershwin for an entire evening and have an orchestra play Gershwin for an entire evening and never be bored because there are so many different approaches to things.

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937,(but) his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, and his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.