Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

- Jerome 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

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'…

- Jerome Kern

Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manner…

- Jerome Kern

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

- Jerome 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