26 Quotes by William Christopher Handy

Nature was my kindergarten.

I hate to see the evening sun go down.

Saving was slow and painful.

You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin

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

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

The blues – the sound of a sinner on revival day.

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 on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.