Lou Williams Quotes

#1. That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.

Marian McPartland

#2. My government will continue mounting a real fight against the trafficking of marijuana and all other drugs.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#3. Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

Werner Herzog

#4. I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

Mary Lou Williams

#5. No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

Albert Camus

#6. I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

Jimmy Buffett

#7. 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

#8. It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished.

Anthony Doerr

#9. A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

William Shakespeare

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet.

Carl Yastrzemski

#14. Lou didn't need to tell me, Luce," he said, looking between me and the field. "I don't need someone to tell me when my girl's in the stands. I could pick you out even if I was playing in the Superdome and you were tucked into the back row.

Nicole Williams

#15. Its boring not to take risks

Madonna Ciccone

#16. He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.

Mary Lou Williams

#17. No matter how well he worked. It was a little discouraging: the harder he tried to please the Captain, the less the Captain seemed to be pleased.

Larry McMurtry

#18. 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

#19. Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures ... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

Hermann Minkowski

#20. 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

#21. Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

Mary Lou Williams

#22. If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

Mary Lou Williams

#23. Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.

Dara Horn

#24. 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

#25. It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

Mary Lou Williams

#26. 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

#27. Now, it's finally time to reveal some secrets.

Brandon Sanderson

#28. Always argue over text so other people aren't embarrassed!

Kate Beckinsale