Fats Waller famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This is so nice, it must be illegal.
-- Fats Waller

#Music #Nice #Jazz
So easy, when you know how.
-- Fats Waller

#Jazz #Easy
If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.
-- Fats Waller

#Music #Mess
One never knows, do one?
-- Fats Waller

#Jazz
Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?
-- Fats Waller

#Pigs #Feet #People
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!
-- Fats Waller

#Garden #House #Bottles
You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?
-- Fats Waller

#Mother #Son #Looks
Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.
-- Fats Waller

#Jazz

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."
I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.
My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster
Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
No one pays me to be nice.
Jazz is the music of the body.
Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?

Fats Waller famous quotes

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