I Frequently Hear Music In The Heart

All These Tales Of People Sitting Down And Composing Symphonies Just As Though They Were Writing A Letter Are Very Much Exaggerated; At Least, It Isn't That Way In My Work.

Summertime And The Living Is Easy Fish Are Jumpin' And The Cotton Is High Oh, Your Daddy's Rich And Your Mama's Good Lookin' So Hush Little Baby Now Don't You Cry One Of These Mornin's You're Gonna Rise Up Singin' Then You'll Spread Your Wings And Take To The Sky But Til That Mornin' Ain't Nothin' Can Harm You With Your Daddy And Your Mammy Standin' By.

I Like To Think Of Music As An Emotional Science.

It Took Me Three Weeks To Write The 'rhapsody In Blue.' I Had Always Wanted To Write Something Blue And Paul Whiteman Inspired.

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.