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The Blues Quotes

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Maggie Nelson
“One thing they don’t tell you ’bout the blues when you got ’em, you keep on fallin’ ’cause there ain't no bottom,' sings Emmylou Harris, and she may be right. Perhaps it would help to be told that there is no bottom, save, as they say, wherever and whenever you stop digging. You have to stand there, spade in hand, cold whiskey sweat beaded on your brow, eyes misshapen and wild, some sorry-ass grave digger grown bone-tired of the trade. You have to stand there in the dirty rut you dug, alone in the darkness, in all its pulsing quiet, surrounded by the scandal of corpses.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets
tags: blue, bluets, depression, maggie-nelson, nelson, the-blues
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were still in slavery was a gift so great that it is now almost the only reason many foreigners still like us at least a little bit. That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues. All pop music today-jazz, swing, be-bop, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Stones, rock and roll, hip hop and on and on- is derived from the blues.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
tags: african-americans, be-bop, black-music, hip-hop, jazz, kurt-vonnegut, pop-music, rock-and-roll, soul, the-blues
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Peter Heller
“What I can play is blues. She was never that into blues. I can salve with Lightning and Cotton, BB and Clapton and Stevie Ray. I can blast Son Seals singing Dear Son until the coyotes in the creek raise up a sympathetic sky ripping interpretation of the harmonica solo. Piercing howls and yelps. Sounds like it’s killing them and also like they love it. Which when you get right down to it is the blues.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
tags: blues, the-blues
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Maggie Nelson
“One thing they don’t tell you bout the blues when you got ‘em, you keep on fallin’ ‘cause there ain’t no bottom,“ sings Emmylou Harris, and she may be right. Perhaps it would help to be told that there is no bottom, save, as they say, wherever and whenever you stop digging.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets
tags: the-blues
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John H. Sibley
“A little white girl stares, holding her father's hand tightly. She has dewy eyes, round with wonder. as the Maxwell St. Bluesman voice sounds like the crackle of thunder.
The Lost Culture of Maxwell Street”
― John H. Sibley, Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist
tags: chicago, maxwell-street, muddy-waters, music, rolling-stones, the-blues
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Ana Claudia Antunes
“I say: Once you go green
You won't let the blues in.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
tags: earth, garden, gardening, gardening-as-therapy, green, happiness, nature, take-care-of-the-earth, the-blues
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Depression kills faster than cyanide.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia
tags: cyanide, dejection, heavy-hearted, killed, melancholia, mourn, saddened, silent-killer, sombre, the-blues
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