Fats Waller quotes
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“This is so nice, it must be illegal.”
-- Fats WallerSource : Fats Waller (2001). “Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller: Performances in Transcription, 1927-1943”, p.3, A-R Editions, Inc.
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“If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.”
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“One never knows, do one?”
-- Fats WallerSource : StormyWeather (motion picture) (1943).Waller used this phrase as an actor in this film, but it was earlier a catchphrase in his singing performances.
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“Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?”
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“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!”
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“You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?”
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“Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.”
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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Source : What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2
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