"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise."

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Source : Letter to Isaac Goldberg in "The Memory of All That" by Joan Peyser (p. 80), 1993.

George Gershwin

#Music Quotes #Heart Quotes #Noise Quotes

“I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.”
“Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children”
“Error is most painful when it is found inside the family.”
“I would have to say BjÃ¶rk is my dream collaboration. She's just such a character and has such a spirit that is unlike any other artist out there. She's literally on a whole 'nother planet. She's consistently changing and evolving and doing these different wild things with her songs. I think I could learn a lot from a person like that.”
“Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.”
“The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.”
“Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.”
“The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.”

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