Quotes by William Christopher Handy - Page 1

Nature was my kindergarten.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Nature
Kindergarten
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Saving was slow and painful.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Pain
Painful
Saving
Slow
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I hate to see the evening sun go down.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Evening
Hate
Sun
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The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Revival
Sinner
Sound
Blues
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You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Running
Missing
Water
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My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Bigs
Ears
Talent
Music Me Talent
Music Me Big
Thrilled
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I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Boat
Rivers
Tennessee
Boats
Whistle
River
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With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Guitar
Sound
Would Be
Express
Sounds
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I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
America
American Music
Sprung
Thinking
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Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Trumpet
Put
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Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Inspirational
Life
Positive
Success
Like
Anything
Get
Out
Trumpet
Put
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You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Harlem
Mind
Use
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Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Changed
Falling In Love
Mind
Musical
Setting
All The World
Love World Mind
Bright
Falling
Instrument
Musical Instrument
Seemed
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You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Art
Men
Appreciate
Farthest
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Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Guitar
Play
Sometimes
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Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Home
Snakes
Wind
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Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Bird
Consciousness
Notes
Song
Symphony
Scale
Answering
Mate
Visualize
Whenever
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If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Dream
Song
Stories
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In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if he could sing. If he could he got the job. The singing of these working men set the rhythm for the work.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Jobs
Men
Long Ago
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The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Coins
Department
Dismayed
Eye
House
Household
Longing
Names
Ailment
Astonished
Clerk
Counted
Cured
Department Store
Finally
Held
Instrument
Till
Store
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A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.
William Christopher Handy / Composer
Guitar
Knives
Sadness
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