“I like to think of music as an emotional science.”— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Music, Science, Emotion
“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.”— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Skyscraper, Machine, Experience, Emotion
“When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.”— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Jazz, idenitity, nation, America, Energy
“Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.”— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: composer, Ideas, Music, Instruments