Fats Waller Quotes

• Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

  Fats Waller

  Jazz

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• This is so nice, it must be illegal.

  Fats Waller

  Music, Nice, Jazz

  Fats Waller (2001). “Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller: Performances in Transcription, 1927-1943”, p.3, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.

  Fats Waller

  Music, Jazz, Fats

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• One never knows, do one?

  Fats Waller

  Jazz, Knows

  StormyWeather (motion picture) (1943).Waller used this phrase as an actor in this film, but it was earlier a catchphrase in his singing performances.

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• So easy, when you know how.

  Fats Waller

  Jazz, Easy, Fats

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• Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?

  Fats Waller

  Feet, Pigs, People

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• I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!

  Fats Waller

  Garden, House, Royal

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• You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?

  Fats Waller

  Mother, Son, Littles

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