Quotes by George Gershwin

George Gershwin

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

Emotional

Machines

Triumph

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

Jobs

Men

Past

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.

People

Symphony

Writing

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

Composition

Gershwin

Jazz

For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere.

Inspiring

Love

Shining

Gershwin’s melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind, part of the 20th-century folk-song tradition in the sense that they are popular music which has been spread by oral tradition (for many must have sung a Gershwin song without having any idea who wrote it).

Essence

New York

Song

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.

Roots

Track

Tragedy

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.

Littles

Piano

Talent

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

Heart

Music

Noise

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

Emotional

Gershwin

Thinking

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Age

America

Baby

Beautiful

Believe

Best Things

Blood

Blue

Boys

Composition

Cool Jazz

Country

Differences

Doe

Dresses

Emotional

Energy

Essence

Example

Extraordinary Things

Fingers

Genius

Gershwin

Hard Work

Heart

Ideas

Inspiration

Inspiring

Interesting

Jazz

Jazz Hands

Jobs

Limits

Littles

Love

Machines

Men

Modest

Mood

Mother

Music

Musical

My Time

New York

Noise

Normal

Originality

Originals

Past

People

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by George Gershwin

George Gershwin

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

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.

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere.

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.

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.

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

Get Social with TBU

Topics by George Gershwin

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu