George Gershwin Quotes

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.

I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

Whenever I'm obsessed about anything, that becomes the subject of a song.

I feel like there are things that inspire the music, and then there's the music itself. I don't feel like I always need to force them together.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

Music is nourishment.

It only takes me about four days to write an album. It don't take that long. I just gotta have the feeling. If I don't have the feeling, it's a different story. I gotta be in the mood.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.