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“We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.”
“....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.”
“Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can...”
“Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.”
“The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitars strings purred with blues and ended with a haunting solitary song with no lyrics.”
“The guitar breathed. It inhaled and exhaled, and music filled the shop as the instrument picked the heartbreak of generations.”
“A real musician aint gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master and when he does, youll know it.”
“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating intellect--as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus rem...”
“You play me with your jazz & leave me with the blues.”
“Moment by moment, in life's winter life frozeEchoing a history of blues, a milestone rose”
“Love caught me with my pants down, watering skeleton flowers and humming the blues.”
“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance ...”
“Starlight is best felt at noon...”
“What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categoriesthat restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really d...”
“Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?”
“And a ride in a hearse tells us were all close to that final cruise . . . when the body dies and we move on. Its just the body, man. Its just the body. The souls already gone. So dont be afraid of ...”
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever i find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the r...”
“My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.”
“While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.”
“One thing the blues ain't, is funny.”
