“If George is around, it will.”

—  Oscar Levant

In response to a question posed by Newman Levy, as to whether Gershwin's music would still be played a hundred years hence; as quoted in Dancing in the Dark (1974), p. 61

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American comedian, composer, pianist and actor 1906–1972

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