As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one's sole primal community. Election by the unique God requires total and unconditional loyalty to one people.
The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God.
God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.
Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
Frank Booth: Let's fuck! I'll fuck anything that moves!
Frank Booth: Don't toast to my health, toast to my fuck!
Frank Booth: Don't you fucking look at me!
Dorothy Vallens: I have your disease in me now.
Dorothy Vallens: What are you doing in my closet, Jeffrey Beaumont?
Dorothy Vallens: I looked for you in my closet tonight.
Dorothy Vallens: He put his disease in me.
Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.
