Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Jack’s Winning Words 1/7/09
“Life is like a trumpet. If you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it.”
(W. C. Handy) Handy knew life, the trumpet and music. You get out of it what you put into it. He bought his first horn when he was a teenager. At one time, he was director of The Alabama Agriculture & Mechanical College Band. He wrote Yellow Dog Blues, Beale Street Blues and the famous St. Louis Blues. Louis Armstrong, Elvis, Pearl Bailey, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald and many other greats put life into his music. He’s even mentioned in the movie, The Music Man. Re-read today’s quote. ;-) Jack

MORE FROM JACK: It also reminds me of the song, The Music Goes Round and Round and Comes Out Here. Performances by Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Ella Fitzgerald and others. Google the lyrics.

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY: Junque in...junque out...nothing in...nothing out. Music clears the mind, cleans the soul, reaches to Heaven. Thank God for men like Handy.

FROM MOLINER C.F.: EVERYBODY gets something out of it when you put the right notes into it.

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