Jerome Kern famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.
-- Jerome Kern

#Berlin
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.
-- Jerome Kern

#Writing #Credit #Likes
Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.
-- Jerome Kern

#Important #Use #Language
Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manners and life of his time and, in turn, gives these impressions back to the world -- simplified, clarified and glorified.
-- Jerome Kern

#People #Giving #World
Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.
-- Jerome Kern

#Character #Play #Numbers
Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.
-- Jerome Kern

#Goes On #Lots Of Money

Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.
I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.
Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!
Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.
In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

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