50 Quotes by George Gershwin

Life is a lot like jazz - it's best when you improvise.

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

It is always possible to create something original.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.