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W. C. Handy Quotes

1873–1958 United States

William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was an African American blues composer, often known as "The Father of the Blues".

United States
Composers
Musicians

Also known as: Handy, W. C.

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Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out.

I think America concedes that (true American music) has sprung from the negro. When we take these things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: W. C. Handy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.