Jerome Kern quotes
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“Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.”
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“The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.”
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“Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.”
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“Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manners and life of his time and, in turn, gives these impressions back to the world -- simplified, clarified and glorified.”
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“Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.”
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“Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.”
-- Jerome Kern
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Source : Sir Arthur Bryant, Adolf Hitler (1940). “Unfinished victory”
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“Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.”
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“Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.”
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“Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!”
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“I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.”
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