"Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music."

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Source : "The Relation of Jazz to American Music", in Henry Cowell (ed.) American Composers on American Music, 1933.

George Gershwin

#Powerful Quotes #Blood Quotes #People Quotes

“Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.”
“You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.”
“To do suc cessful research, you don't need to know everything, you just, need to know one thing that isn't known.”

Source : "Biographical Memoirs V.83" by Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, National Academies Press, (p. 201), 2003.
“And itâ€™s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this wouldâ€™ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.â€ â€œSafe to do what?â€ he says in a gentler tone. â€œStarve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You havenâ€™t hurt people â€“ youâ€™ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.”
“I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.”
“I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.”
“Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.”
“The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.”

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