Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Jerome Kern

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American composer Jerome Kern.

Last updated on November 17, 2024.

Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "The Song Is You", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Long Ago ". He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and Yip Harburg.

American - Composer | January 27, 1885 - November 11, 1945

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I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

Jerome Kern

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.

Jerome Kern

Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.

Jerome Kern

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.

Jerome Kern

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

Jerome Kern

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Jerome Kern

Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

Jerome Kern