Thomas Dorsey Quotes & Sayings

Joe Louis once said, "Every fighter has a plan until they get hit. — Thomas J. Dorsey

Every nation, every human being that came across earth had a song and sang in some way to their God. — Thomas A. Dorsey

Money doesn't make the man. Some people have money, and some people are rich. — Thomas A. Dorsey

I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Thensomething happened. I felt as though I could reach out and touch God. I foundmyself playing a melody, one I'd never heard or played before, and words came intomy head - they just seemed to fall into place ... — Thomas A. Dorsey

When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians. — Wynton Marsalis