In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.
Adèle: You're talking crap in front of everyone! I'm not a lesbian!
Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.
I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.
The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes were instantly soaked. She flung up her arms to the sky. Power ran to her fingertips. Excitement was communicated from the waiting trees, and the orcha...
How thin the air felt at the forest's edge, how ghostly the trees that guarded their realm.... The whole world seemed as delicate as a dandelion seed, and as fleeting.... How sad to know that the figment village of my imagination would not vanish whe...
Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, looking at the sky. Now and then, a shooting star would trace a bright arc across the heavens. The longer I watched, though, the more nervous it made m...
What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758, while observing the comet of that year. ... This nebula had such a resemblance to a comet in its form and brightness that I e...
What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that meant 'storm.' The smell of fire taht meant 'Flee.' The sound of ...
Nice Guy Eddie: C'mon, throw in a buck! Mr. Pink: Uh-uh, I don't tip. Nice Guy Eddie: You don't tip? Mr. Pink: Nah, I don't believe in it. Nice Guy Eddie: You don't believe in tipping? Mr. Blue: You know what these chicks make? They make shit. Mr. Pi...
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
Sifting through scattered memories is like sifting through sand. Some remain, some simply slip away… – TARA
It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us. -MUKTA
No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John
Be a Samurai. Because you just never know what's behind the freaking sky.
