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“The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where were bound.”
“You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?”
“The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.”
“Now listen for your song. Everybodys got a song. When I used to chase the Trane John Coltrane that is he used to tell me, If I know a mans sound, I know the man. Do you hear the melody playing in y...”
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC”
“Stop thinking about the steps. There are no moves in blues, only movement. Just listen to the music, Matt whispered into my ear.I let go, softening into his arms. The sways became steps, and withou...”
“For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.”
“She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women ...”
“At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After ...”
“I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plan...”
“When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.”
“...I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the s...”
“You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the saddest kind of blues is for them that's had everything they ever wanted and has lost it, and knows...”
“These babies aint just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”
“When you scratch these guitars, they bleed.”
“If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”
“You might say that the universe plays the blues.”
“I had hooked up my iPod to the speakers. The air was filled with the raw, sexy purr of Etta James. "The thing that's great about the blues," I told Luke, pausing to sip from my glass of wine, "is t...”
“The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.”
“And here's to the blues, the real blues where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.”
