[after Jake tells the band to split from Bob's Country Bunker] Willie 'Too Big' Hall: I say we give the blues brothers one more chance Donald 'Duck' Dunn: Why not? If the shit fits, wear it. [gets into the car] Donald 'Duck' Dunn: Scoot over, goddamn...
Although the snake does not fly it has caught the bird whose home is in the sky.
Mackerel sky and mares' tails make lofty ships carry low sails.
And in it all, the sensation of shaking my fists at the sky, shaking my fists high up to the sky, because that is what we do when someone dies too early, too beautiful, too undervalued by the world, or sometimes just at all -- we shake our fists at t...
We look up, if only to see if we're likely to be rained on. The sky calls attention to itself, whether scored by herons, cranes, or wires; illumined by sunsets, Perseids, or ballparks; broken up by the twigwork of oaks or maples, painted in rainbows,...
Do I look the sort to cause trouble?" he asks. For the first time, he looks me directly in the eye. I catch my breath as his eyes slam into me. They're the gray of the sky right before a blizzard. "Well, they did just throw you into a cell," I say, v...
In the distant past, Muslim doctors advised nervous people to look up at the sky. Forget the tight earth. Imagine that the sky, all of it, belonged to them alone. Crescent, low moon, more stars than the eyes looking up at them. But the sky was free, ...
A storm was coming; you could feel it in the air, chill wind was cutting through the thickest coat and there was a faint wetness in the air that was touching the skin if turned towards the storm. Mark looked at the sky above the ocean. The sky was ge...
I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes.
The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.
Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.
I like coffee tables. I’m into drinkable furniture.
Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
I'll never throw away my blue jeans.
Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.
I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy.
I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'
