53 quotes found
“I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.”
“Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.”
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC”
“And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.”
“Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’ Do you hear the melody playin...”
“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...”
“A real musician ain’t gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master and when he does, you’ll know it.”
“When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.”
“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”
“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.”
“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...”
“And a ride in a hearse tells us we’re all close to that final cruise . . . when the body dies and we move on. It’s just the body, man. It’s just the body. The soul’s already gone. So don’t be afrai...”
