Michael Feinstein quotes

“I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.”
-- Michael Feinstein

Source : Source: www.npr.org

#Ohio Quotes #Years Quotes #Piano Quotes

“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

Source : "The memory of Gershwin prompts host of albums". www.cnn.com. November 05, 1998.

#Today Quotes #Legacy Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“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

Source : "Music fans celebrate Gershwin's many contributions". www.cnn.com. September 25, 1998.

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“I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.”
-- Michael Feinstein

#Long Quotes #Important Quotes #Significant Quotes

“A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.”

“It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.”

“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.

“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

“Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without”

“I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.”

“Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.”

“Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.