"But every good-bye ain't gone, baby, shut-eye sure ain't sleep Every good-bye ain't gone, little woman, and the shut-eye sure ain't sleep But I said one thing about it, baby, will you please remember me?"
"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."Franz Kafka
"Blackfoot singers, for example, know that in Blackfoot cosmology music was given to humans to help them solve the problems they must face in life." - Richard Crawford, from 'America's Musical Life: A History'
"You hear these songs, and they?re incredibly moving. But when we talk about it as being raw or authentic, it discounts just how hard this stuff was to play and how musically sophisticated and innovative it was. There?s a sense of almost remarginalizing it by talking about it as this primitive music that sprung up in the cotton fields, when in fact, it?s incredibly skilled and impressive music".
Amanda Petrusich, author of Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World?s Rarest 78 rpm Records.
Forgive me if you've heard this one before (alas I am new here and have not yet read back on all of the material)... but this one is a perpetual favourite of mine that I use especially in all kinds of forums where people don't know what they are talking about when they talk about "Blues":
"The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are." - Son House
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"The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are." - Son House
"I wasn?t too nervous? about waiting to be saved, he told The New York Times in 2006. ?I had my little wine and a couple of beers with me; I?m all right" - Fats Domino, NY Times obit, October 2017