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I love Gershwin. I love musicals. -- Gloria Estefan
Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. -- Joni Mitchell
I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music. -- Shirley Jones
Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. -- Joni Mitchell
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. -- Maurice Ravel
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. -- Kate Bush
As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar. -- Douglas Brinkley
I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired. -- Brian Wilson
As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me. -- Mel Brooks
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive. -- Marvin Hamlisch
The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it. -- Michael Feinstein
I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me. -- Ethel Merman
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. -- Zooey Deschanel
He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase. -- Michael Feinstein
I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano. -- Kevin Kline
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. -- Moby
I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter. -- Kristin Chenoweth
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? -- Maurice Ravel
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Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms. -- Al Kooper
I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did. -- Howard Dietz
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel. -- Maurice Ravel
I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me -- Ethel Merman
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little. -- Kate Bush
America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights... the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist? -- Michael Bywater
For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it! -- Brian Cox
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. -- George Gershwin
Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell. -- Jason Robert Brown
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3. -- J. D. Souther
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me. -- Cat Power
I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs. -- John Oates

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