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Fats Waller Quotes

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

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

Fats Waller
Jazz

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.

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

Fats Waller
Music, Jazz, Fats

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.

So easy, when you know how.

Fats Waller
Jazz, Easy, Fats

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

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

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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