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.

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.

I hear the name Gershwin and I think of the most incredibly talented, prolific, extraordinary composer of the century, and his music is as fresh and vital today as it was when he originally created it.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

If he'd been around 75 years ago, George Gershwin would have written about him 'the way you wear your hat, the way you raise your knee.'

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.