"Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville."

Music, People, Church, Class

28

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville."

Exlpore more Music quotes

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."

Benny Bellamacina, British Author

Music, Creativity, Nature, Inspirational

"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Soul, Ecstasy, Joy

"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Heart, Soul, Joy

"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Music, Mistakes, Life, Practice

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Music, Dance, Speech, Stars

"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Heart, Bloom, Peace

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Music, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Soul, Life, Window

"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Music, Being, Nonsense, Nothing

Explore more quotes by James Weldon Johnson

"You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun."

Black, Quest, Waiting, World

"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."

Money, Americans, Fact, London

"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."

Life, Consideration, Paris

"Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways."

People, Affection, Nothing, Race

"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."

Despair, London, Man, Paris

"There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it."

People,

"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character."

Music, Character, May

"Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience."

Experience, Heart, Emotions, May

"She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves."

Love, First, Firstlove

"As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat."

Now,