George Gershwin: I don't want to be just a concert pianist. I want to use the piano as a stepping stone!

- Robert Alda (as George Gershwin) in Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

George Gershwin: It's only with my music that I can prove my right to live. I must write!

- Robert Alda (as George Gershwin) in Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

Max Dreyfus: [referring to "Porgy and Bess", which has just opened] You've made opera entertaining.

- Charles Coburn (as Max Dreyfus) in Rhapsody in Blue (1945)