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Modern European composers...h...

Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

Gershwin's melodic gift was p...

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).

George Gershwin 41 quotes

I frequently hear music in th...

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

Life is a lot like jazz. It's...

Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

Look at the piano. You'll not...

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

Jazz I regard as an American ...

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

Summertime And the living is ...

Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your mama's good lookin' So hush little baby now don't you cry One of these mornin's You're gonna rise up singin' Then you'll spread your wings And take to the sky But til that mornin' Ain't nothin' can harm you With your daddy And your mammy standin' by.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

The composer does not sit aro...

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

Porgy is...an interesting exa...

Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

It sounds simple, of course, ...

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

What the hell do you want to ...

What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

George Gershwin 41 quotes

It took me three weeks to wri...

It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

Life is a lot like jazz... it...

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

All these tales of people sit...

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 41 quotes

Writing music is not so much ...

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

I didn't even start playing t...

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.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

All great composers of the pa...

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

George Gershwin 41 quotes

Upper berth, lower berth, tha...

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

George Gershwin 41 quotes

Why should I limit myself to ...

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

George Gershwin 41 quotes

I want to say at once that I ...

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.

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....