True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
George Gershwin
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
George Gershwin
I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.
George Gershwin
Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
George Gershwin
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.
George Gershwin
I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.
George Gershwin
It is always possible to create something original.