Quotes of Rodger - somelinesforyou

“ Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. ”

- Faith Whittlesey

“ Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly. ”

- Art Garfunkel

“ I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me. ”

- Gene Kelly
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