Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.
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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
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.
I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
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.
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.
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.
We hear about the Gershwins, the Kerns, and the Berlins, but there were some great little writers like Theodore Morse, Charles K. Harris, and Ernest R. Ball, who wrote 'Let the Rest of the World Go By.'
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