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William Christopher Handy foi um compositor e músico americano, considerado o "pai do Blues".

✵ 16. Novembro 1873 – 28. Março 1958
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W. C. Handy: Frases em inglês

“Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out.”

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Music Preservation Society biography http://www.wchandymusicfestival.org/downloads/HandyBiography.pdf
Variante: Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

“I think America concedes that (true American music) has sprung from the negro. When we take these things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.”

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Music Preservation Society biography http://www.wchandymusicfestival.org/downloads/HandyBiography.pdf

“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.”

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Profiles In Black http://www.theblackmarket.com/ProfilesInBlack/WCHandy.htm

“Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.”

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