There was a time when music knew its place. No longer. Possibly this is not music's fault. It may be that music fell in with a bad crowd and lost its sense of common decency. - Fran Lebowitz, "The Sound of Music: Enough Already"
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Went to see the gipsy, see what the gipsy'd say. She said 'Lord God, you got the same problem as me' - Jerry Ricks, China Blues
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. There was a time when music knew its place. No longer. Possibly this is not music's fault. It may be that music fell in with a bad crowd and lost its sense of common decency. - Fran Lebowitz, "The Sound of Music: Enough Already"
This guy wanted to marry me. He said "It's me or the horn." I said, "Well, it ain't you, babe" - Martye Awkerman, trumpet, quoted in Swing Shift, "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s by Sherrie Tucker
Now I'm gonna smoke my reefer, drink my good champagne and wine. Said I ain't gonna let these hard-headed women make me lose my mind - Kokomo Arnold, Rocky Road Blues
?A lot of people think the blues is depressing,? she told The Los Angeles Times in 1992, ?but that?s not the blues I?m singing. When I?m singing blues, I?m singing life. People that can?t stand to listen to the blues, they?ve got to be phonies.? Etta James
If we want everything to stay as it is, everything will have to change ? from The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lamedusa
My comment is: Wish I'd thought of that one. If we want everything to stay as it is, everything will have to change ? from The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lamedusa "The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra I am lost. Please return me to 1932. - printed on the back of a New Lost City Ramblers publicity card
The first night I stayed in Memphis, chinch bugs turned my bed around - Blind Lemon Jefferson, Chinch Bug Blues
I got her a job, she got to be a crank, she's taken all her money and put it in the bank! - Papa Charlie Jackson (You put it in, I'll take it out)
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