"Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly."

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Source : "The Composer in the Machine Age". Book by George Gershwin (p. 386), 1933.

George Gershwin

#America Quotes #Musical Quotes #Age Quotes

“It's not a competition, it's a doorway.”
“Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.”
“Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete.”
“I'm a Mormon. I don't do a lot of the off-the-field activities that athletes are known to do. And I guess I've created a world that is unlike the typical world of a professional athlete.”
“To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.”
“I'm not much of a planner. I set a goal and there really is nothing else... no plan B.”
“America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.”
“He reached for my hand, lifted it to his lips, and kissed my fingertips. "I love you.”

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