For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere.

Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.