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“Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.”

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George Gershwin was an American composer known for his unique musical style and his integration of jazz into classical music. His works, including 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'Porgy and Bess,' have had a profound impact on 20th-century music. more

“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.”

Littles Age America Term Modern Tradition Machines Musical Technique Rhythm Impulse Composer Stimulus Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“I like to think of music as an emotional science.”

Thinking Emotional Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.”

Chance Crosses Roots Tragedy Track Soil Deprived Plunge Habitat Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.”

Past Strong Buddhism Connections Karma Soulmate Intuitive Bad Karma Goes Around Comes Around

Author:Richard Gere

“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).”

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Author:George Gershwin

“Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.”

Men Should Has Beens Done Interesting Written Subjects Talent Example Accepted Chosen Spite Setups Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty to a prince, provided histhoughts and orders are understood, so the presence of only the strictly necessary numbers of bodies confers dignity on a picture.”

Body Artist Order Numbers Figures Ought Understood Dignity Majesty Impart

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.”

Hands Light Objects Painting Models Train Excellent Mediocre Sculpture Incidence

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.”

People World Powerful Greek Formidable True People

Author:Ibn Khaldun

“When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay.”

Sleep Pay Cloaks

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