Best 11 quotes in «great american quotes» category

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history.  I write to entertain my readers.

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter.

Losing is the great American sin.

It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education.