George Gershwin: Emotion

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

George Gershwin: 24 quotes5 likes

“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.

“I like to think of music as an emotional science.”

George Gershwin

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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.”

George Gershwin

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The Composer in the Machine Age (1933)