"Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind, part of the 20th-century folk-song tradition in the sense that they are popular music which has been spread by oral tradition (for many must have sung a Gershwin song without having any idea who wrote it)."

-- George Gershwin

#Song Quotes #New York Quotes #Essence Quotes

“Making music, being creative in some primal way, should be fun. Listening to it or playing it can and should take you out of yourself for some brief blissful moments.”
“We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong”
“Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.”
“Respect a man, he will do the more.”
“A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.61, Hot Key Books
“I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.”
“Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.”

Source : Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”
“I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.”

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