Kern Quotes & Sayings

The very first hit factory was T.B. Harms, a Tin Pan Alley publishing company overseen by Max Dreyfus. With staff writers like Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers, T.B. Harms was the dominant publisher of popular music in the early twentieth century. Dreyfus called his writers "the boys" and installed pianos for them to compose on around the office on West Twenty-Eighth, the street that gave Tin Pan Alley its name, allegedly for the tinny-sounding pianos passersby heard from the upper-story windows of the row houses. The sheet-music sellers also employed piano players in their street-level stores, who would perform the Top 40 of the 1920s for browsing customers. — John Seabrook

all texts are at least potentially environmental (and therefore susceptible to ecocriticism or ecologically informed reading) in the sense that all text are literally or imaginatively situated in a place, and in the sense that their authors, consciously or not, inscribe within them a certain relation to their place. — Robert Kern

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. — James Kern Feibleman

I really like Larry Clark's films, as weird as that is. I like Richard Kern films. — Jody Hill

I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike. — Jim Kern

A good rule, for this job and many others: give praise publicly and criticism privately. The — Jonathan Kern

I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music. — Shirley Jones

Each child comes to us with a message from God and it is our job to help them deliver that message. — Jim Kern

Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole once said that "life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels." Comedy is negative; it is a criticism of limitations and an unwillingness to accept them. Tragedy is positive; it is an uncritical acceptance of the positive content of that which is delimited. Since comedy deals with the limitations of actual situations and tragedy with their positive content, comedy must ridicule and tragedy must endorse. — James Kern Feibleman

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. — James Kern Feibleman

Irving Berlin has no place in American music
he is American music. — Jerome Kern

Exclusion of just one class of citizens from receiving a marriage license based upon the perceived 'threat' they pose to the marital institution is, at bottom, an arbitrary exclusion based upon the majority's disapproval of the defined class. It is also insulting to same-sex couples, who are human beings capable of forming loving, committed, enduring relationships. — Terence C. Kern

I told him I wasn't tired. He told me, no, but the outfielders sure are. — Jim Kern

Look at him being all relationshipy and stuff. (Annabelle) — Erin 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

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. — James Kern Feibleman

The price of good journalism is eternal vigilance. — Jonathan Kern

The apparent size and age of the universe suggests that many technologically advanced extra-terrestrial civilizations ought to exist. However, this hypothesis seems inconsistent with the lack of observational evidence to support it." Or "Where is everybody?" The Fermi Paradox Enrico Fermi, Los Alamos, 1950 — Ralph 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

A lot of the point mags are going out of business. They dropped the pay tremendously and it's all because of the internet. I used to go out once a month to LA and shoot for one week. I'd make a ton of money then come back to New York and do whatever I wanted. — Richard Kern

Unlike a bag of heroin, a girl can be sold again and again. — Peggy Kern

The future of aviation human factors lies primarily with the discipline of individual flyers, not high-powered training programs, 3D simulation, or advanced technology aircraft. — Tony Kern

Ford has one last piece of advice for anyone who's reading his or her first commentary for NPR: "Bring a camera so you can take pictures of the studio, since God knows this stuff doesn't happen to you every day." Commentary — Jonathan Kern

Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site. — Richard 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

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

Take a deep breath
Pick yourself up,
dust yourself off
Start all over again
And again and again and again.
May be easier said than done, but it can be done. Slowly but surely - and sometimes, not so surely, but with radical hope.
Step by precious step.Hour by hour.Day by day. — KERN JEROME FIELDS DOROTHY

Achieving the right balance is all part of programming a news magazine. — Jonathan Kern

The first time I heard of suicidegirls was when a model from there contacted me to see if I wanted to do a shoot. I can't remember what happened with that but we didn't end up doing it. — Richard Kern

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

Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern. — Art Spander

Every drop makes a ripple... — Kern Carter

Then I became aware of the site as the traffic for it became higher. The most recent contact was this girl Lily. She wanted me to shoot her for the site and she actually showed up. There a lot of people who contact me to do a shoot for a website then you never hear from them. — Richard Kern