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I like to think of music as an emotional science.

— George Gershwin The Composer in the Machine Age (1933)

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My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

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)

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

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