"He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and……" — Mary Lou Williams
"He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously."
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12 Quotes by Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams has 12 quotes on this site.
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Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your…
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I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
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Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage…
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One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came…
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I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was…
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If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.
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It's not what you play, it's how you play it.
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Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and…
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was…
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Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the…
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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…
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More Clowning Quotes
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one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.
— Red Buttons
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Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident…
— Conrad Hyers
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There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit.…
— Gene Lees
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I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.
— David Boreanaz
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was…
— J. Cole
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Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look…
— Bruce Springsteen
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Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and…
— Stephen Fry
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I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I…
— Tim Robbins
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I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery…
— Orla Brady
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If the guy in the Hanes commercial was clowning my 'bacon neck' to Michael Jordan right in front of me,…
— Blake Griffin
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