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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.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.

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.

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.'

I was in Paris for nine years, starting in '98. One of the great things when I was first there were these wonderful CD collections, selling for almost nothing. For ten euros, you'd get three CDs of all the Gershwin songs.