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.

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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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

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