Syncopation (1942)
Jessica Grayson: Ella
Quotes
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Ella : It's trouble music, that's all it is. It's trouble music. When folks has got trouble, they get it off their mind with singin'. Singin' the songs I hear since before I can remember. If a body's got ears, they can hear it everywhere, even here in Chicago. Folks can't help it.
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Ella : I ain't never seen nothin' wrong in music and in folks bein' natural. Music comes right from her soul and there can't be no harm in that.
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Ella : I don't want no son of mine playing in a place like this.
King Jeffers : And why not?
Ella : I want him to study music like the white folks do.
King Jeffers : Listen, Ella, Reggie got something that no teacher can give no one, no how. Every once in a great while, the Lord takes a tiny little spark and drops it inside of someone. That spark can be snuffed out - one, two, three - but if you leave it alone, it can grow into a great, big ball of fire, just-a burnin' so bright, just-a givin' off such big heat that after the man die, folks can still sit around that fire and keep warm. Let Reggie be with me and I'll watch over that spark of his.
