Zitat des Tages von George Gershwin:
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?
Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.
It is always possible to create something original.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.
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.
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.