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"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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William Christopher Handy was an American composer and musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues. He was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States. One of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, Handy did not create the blues genre but was one of the first to publish music in the blues form, thereby taking the blues from a regional mus
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"Life is like a trumpet. If you dont put anything into it, you dont get anything out."
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"If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composers 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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