the blues is a chair, not a design for a chair or a better chair . . . it is the first chair. It is a chair for sitting on, not for looking at. You sit on that music.
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It's a 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it.
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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I find that with me low spirits and feeble health come and go together. The last two or three months I have had frequent attacks of the blues....
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Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
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Oh, the blues ain't nothing but a good woman feeling bad.
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Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
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After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
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I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
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