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Quotes from The Composer in the Machine Age — George Gershwin

1898–1937 United States

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An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

The Composer in the Machine Age (1933)

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

The Composer in the Machine Age (1933)

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

The Composer in the Machine Age (1933)

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.

The Composer in the Machine Age (1933)

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.

The Composer in the Machine Age (1933)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Gershwin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.