50 Quotes by George Gershwin

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

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.

Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your mama's good lookin' So hush little baby now don't you cry One of these mornin's You're gonna rise up singin' Then you'll spread your wings And take to the sky But til that mornin' Ain't nothin' can harm you With your daddy And your mammy standin' by.