Quotes by Mary Lou Williams - Page 1

It's not what you play, it's how you play it.
Mary Lou Williams / Jazz Pianist
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If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.
Mary Lou Williams / Jazz Pianist
Fall
Plans
Talent
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I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
Mary Lou Williams / Jazz Pianist
Music
Agents
Band
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Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.
Mary Lou Williams / Jazz Pianist
Music
Heart
People
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He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.
Mary Lou Williams / Jazz Pianist
Clowning
Decided
Explained
Seriously
Settle
There And Then
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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 / Jazz Pianist
Being Yourself
Musical
Playing Yourself
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When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'
Mary Lou Williams / Jazz Pianist
Rehearsal
Your Me Doing
Call
Me Doing Your
Saw
Piano Player
Seated
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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 / Jazz Pianist
Music
Four
Long
Mother
Remember
Tied
Tunes
Time Music Remember
Time Music Mother
Time Music Long
Played
Reed
By The Time
Organ
Picking
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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 / Jazz Pianist
Home
Mother
Night
Ready
Home Me Night
Harris
Letting
Opened
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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 / Jazz Pianist
Home
Crisis
Fine
Gigs
Sick
Support
Ball
Meant
Came
Having
Jamming
Musicians
Stepfather
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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 / Jazz Pianist
Night
Offers
Paid
Party
Play
Society Always Me
Churches
Dances
Dates
Dollar
Hour
Per
Parties
Regularly
Sum
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During the years I was with Andy Kirk we starved almost. I remember not eating for practically a month several times. But we were very, very happy because the music was so interesting, and you forgot to eat, anyway.
Mary Lou Williams / Jazz Pianist
Interesting
Struggle
Years
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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 / Jazz Pianist
Love
House
Play
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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 wouldn't 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 / Jazz Pianist
Consent
House
Lessons
Paper
Love Music Me
Quite
Love Music Done
Except
Feared
Hear
Hoping
Ma
Musicians
Took
Unable
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