Mary Lou Williams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
-- Mary Lou Williams

#Musical #Band #Agents
Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.
-- Mary Lou Williams

#Music #Heart #People
Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.
-- Mary Lou Williams

#Mother #Home #Night
It's not what you play, it's how you play it.
-- Mary Lou Williams

#Play
If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.
-- Mary Lou Williams

#Fall #Talent #Plans
I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.
-- Mary Lou Williams

#Mother #Long #Four
One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.
-- Mary Lou Williams

#Home #Sick #Support
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldnt consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
-- Mary Lou Williams

#Play #House #Done
Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.
-- Mary Lou Williams

#Being Yourself #Musical #Jazz
Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.
-- Mary Lou Williams

#Party #Night #Play

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