"The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it."

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Source : "The memory of Gershwin prompts host of albums". www.cnn.com. November 05, 1998.

Michael Feinstein

#Today Quotes #Legacy Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.”

Source : "Bush's NSA Hubris" by Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. January 20, 2006.
“I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.”
“In Europe they're more calm, more reserved. Here, in the States, people are more wild, a little more open. I guess it takes a lot to impress those people up there in Europe. Especially in London.”
“In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.”
“For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.”
“You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.”
“People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don't like, something else will come along in a minute that hopefully you might like that.”
“Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.”

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