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. Michael Feinstein Read Quote
I’ve certainly developed as a vocalist. I find my early recordings very difficult to listen to. Michael Feinstein Read Quote
I’ve had a couple of times where things were so extraordinary wonderful that it changed my world. One of them was when I met Ira Gershwin and started working with him. That was a game-changer for me. It changed the entire course and direction of my life. Michael Feinstein Read Quote
Most of the musicals I go to I simply don’t enjoy, so I don’t go to them unless a number of people I trust say I have to. Michael Feinstein Read Quote
I will not programme generic orchestrations but try to find original ones – when I play Richard Rodgers songs, for example, I have Peggy Lee’s original orchestrations that I got from her granddaughter for them. Michael Feinstein Read Quote
I started out as a pianist and singer in gay and piano bars – they were the only places I could get a job singing show tunes. Michael Feinstein Read Quote
Sinatra is so connected with the persona of the ‘Guys and Dolls’ characters even though he had great conflicts with Frank Loesser personally. Michael Feinstein Read Quote
The arts are tremendously powerful in bringing people with opposing views together. Michael Feinstein Read Quote
