37 Quotes by Michael Feinstein

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.

He’s a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman – a terrible piano salesman. I couldn’t sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn’t buy them from me.

Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.

As hackneyed and cliche as it sounds, follow your heart. We are all given intuition and instincts, and sometimes it is hard to follow those instincts with the fears and pressures that surround us - but you have to do it.

Activism is a very admirable way to create change, but it has to go hand in hand with personal contact with the people with whom we have opposing points of view; without that, there will never be any movement.

I meditate a lot and pray for guidance. If, in a moment of self-contemplation or meditation, I were to feel very strongly that I shouldn't be an entertainer anymore, that I should be doing something else, I would stop immediately.

I've had a couple of times where things were so extraordinary wonderful that it changed my world. One of them was when I met Ira Gershwin and started working with him. That was a game-changer for me. It changed the entire course and direction of my life.

Most of the musicals I go to I simply don't enjoy, so I don't go to them unless a number of people I trust say I have to.