George Gershwin: Composer

George Gershwin was American composer and pianist. Explore interesting quotes on composer.

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

George Gershwin

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The Composer in the Machine Age (1933)

“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

Isaac Goldberg Tin Pan Alley (New York: John Day, 1930) p. viii.

“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

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The Composer in the Machine Age (1933)