George Gershwin frasi celebri
Origine: Citato in Le ambizioni colte di un musicista popolare, in Gershwin, E.D.T. Edizioni di Torino, 1992.
“Mi piace pensare alla musica come a una scienza delle emozioni.”
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George Gershwin: Frasi in inglese
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Isaac Goldberg Tin Pan Alley (New York: John Day, 1930) p. viii.
Quoted in Merle Armitage Accent on America (New York: E. Weyhe, 1944) p. 292.
"The Relation of Jazz to American Music", in Henry Cowell (ed.) American Composers on American Music (1933); reprinted in Gregory R. Suriano (ed.) Gershwin in His Time (New York: Gramercy, 1998) p. 97.
“I like to think of music as an emotional science.”
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“I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.”
Letter to Isaac Goldberg; published in Joan Peyser The Memory of All That (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993) p. 80.
“The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.”
Remark quoted in Vernon Duke "Gershwin, Schillinger and Dukelsky: Some Reminiscences", The Musical Quarterly vol. 33 (1947).
“An entire composition written in jazz could not live.”
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