Topic: Quote Drive 2020

[Blues Vintage]

"Use your instrument to play the blues, don't use the blues to play your instrument"

- James Harman

[lindy]

What better reason to do something like music than just because you love it? It's really easy, all you gotta do is quit your day job, and alienate your family, and confuse all your friends, and live in squalor for a few years, and you got it
                                                           --Bruce Molsky

[lindy]

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.
                                                                                       — Rumi

[Blues Vintage]

"The best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced."   

- Dr. John on James Booker

[lindy]

I had a little bird and its name was Enza, I opened up the window and in-flew-Enza.

                                               Popular children's rhyme in 1918

[Blues Vintage]

As Miles Davis introduced modal improvisation Coltrane complained that he found it difficult to end his solo.

Miles suggested:  "Try removing the mouthpiece from your mouth"

[Blues Vintage]

"The sense is in the sound, not the explanation.  This music doesn't have any rules".

- John Miller

[JohnLeePimp]

"I got five 'pendent children, on my disability check"

- Sleepy John Estes, Rats in my Kitchen

[Blues Vintage]

"My favorite piano player. I hate to say it, he was my first cousin, dead now and gone, we were two sisters children, is Johnny Jones.
I wind up teaching him, but he beat me at my own game"

-Otis Spann

[Blues Vintage]

“Chop your own wood, it will warm you twice”

- Henry Ford