top of page
.png){kind=small}
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."
"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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."
"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."
"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
"The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South."
"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."
"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."
"My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals."
"There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it."
"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character."
bottom of page