Gershwin Playing

Famous quotes containing the words gershwin and/or playing:

“Nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try.”
—Ira Gershwin (1896–1983)

““Come, come” said Tom’s father, “at your time of life,
There’s no longer excuse for thus playing the rake—
It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife.”
“Why, so it is, father—whose wife shall I take?””
—Thomas Moore (1779–1852)