Harlem Quote by William Christopher Handy

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

— William Christopher Handy

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

— William Christopher Handy

Nature was my kindergarten.

— William Christopher Handy

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

— William Christopher Handy

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build…

— William Christopher Handy

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

— William Christopher Handy

In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if…

— William Christopher Handy

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

— William Christopher Handy

You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.

— William Christopher Handy

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built…

— William Christopher Handy

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the…

— William Christopher Handy

I hate to see the evening sun go down.

— William Christopher Handy