Paul Whiteman credited as playing...
Paul Whiteman
- Paul Whiteman: The number was really wonderful. All we've got to do is get the public blues-conscious.
- Ira Gershwin: He's sold on the blues. He won't give them up for anybody. He knows what he wants, Paul. He'll go on.
- Paul Whiteman: We'll go on. The blues will go on.
- Paul Whiteman: I think I'm going to give a jazz concert smack-dab in Aeolian Hall. I'm going to make a lady out of jazz.
- Ira Gershwin: The "Blue Monday Blues" in Aeolian Hall?
- Paul Whiteman: Better than that. George, I want you to write a serious concert piece. Based on the blues.
- George Gershwin: A serious piece that's blue, too? Blue themes and jazz rhythms? Of course.
- Max Dreyfus: You'll lose your shirt, Whiteman. Those highbrows will laugh you right out of Aeolian Hall.
- George Gershwin: A Rhapsody in Blue.
- Paul Whiteman: I may be kind of batty, but this looks mighty good to me.
- Max Dreyfus: Why, it's as blue as blue Monday.
- Ira Gershwin: Hey, that's a good title.
- George Gershwin: Not bad. "Blue Monday Blues". Let's go down on the stage and run it through.