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Title: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: CF on February 03, 2015, 05:53:50 AM

I just saw a quote in the Oracle from Muddy Waters' LOC interviews in 1941 & when asked how old he though Son House was the Oracle has him saying 'Son House is ancient . . . he's about 47.'
I don't think that's the word Muddy uses (can't seem to find the interv. right now to check) but I think he says 'aged' or ageable' or some other term like that. I'll check back

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: nobocaster on March 07, 2015, 12:52:02 PM

"If you talk in your sleep..  don't mention my name."

  John Dilleshaw - Sand Mountain Drag

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: Johnm on March 20, 2015, 12:53:23 PM

"Yes, my poor Mama died in nineteen and twenty-four
Sleepin' a long dream, to never speak no more"

Joel Hopkins--"I Ain't Gonna Roll for the Big Hat Man No More"

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: dj on March 21, 2015, 10:15:40 AM

"You can have a symphony orchestra.  If you got a jug player in that band, that's a jug band."

Henry Miles, Louisville jug player

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: Gumbo on May 17, 2015, 05:29:55 AM

"Here come the man with the headache stick"

Gus Cannon, Madison Street Rag

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: Blues Vintage on May 17, 2015, 05:46:54 AM

"Bet you don't hear that when they get divorced"

Skip James to Stephen Calt when they heard the honking of a wedding procession.

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: StoogeKebab on May 18, 2015, 03:36:40 AM

Here's one I posted that got over 400 upvotes on reddit when discussing diabetes and B B King.

"I went down to the doctor man, told him I couldn't see my penis, he said don't eat nothin' sweet, you've got the sugar diabetes"

- Big Joe Williams, Sugar Diabetes Blues, Going Back To Crawford, Arhoolie CD 9015

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: Stuart on May 25, 2015, 05:57:59 PM

I couldn't find the 2015 thread, so this one will have to do. After reading the recent blog bait, I'm reminded of the following:

"...what one says in abstractions about 'a tradition' finds its ultimate proof or disproof in the lives of men..."
                        Arthur F. Wright

And in the lives of women, one should add.

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: uncle bud on May 25, 2015, 06:26:57 PM

Yeah, we forgot to start a new one.

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: Rivers on May 26, 2015, 06:07:53 AM

If someone can think of a good tagline for a 2015 iteration we can split this one by posting date easily enough.

BTW Stuart, 'blog bait', excellent term, consider it stolen.

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: Gumbo on May 26, 2015, 10:02:22 AM

Would 30s Mills Brothers do it for you?

"It was not told to me I only Heard"

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: Rivers on May 26, 2015, 11:47:39 PM

Perfect.

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: frankie on May 27, 2015, 03:34:55 AM

"It's no man is gonna make a real good blues singer unless he been havin' lot, he been havin' lots of trouble.... Therefore, he'll go away and try to sing the blues and stuff until, uh, he feels that his worry is kinda passed over."

J.D. Short on the nature of the blues singer, introduction to "Starry Crown Blues," Legacy of the Blues (Vol. 8 )

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: Johnm on May 27, 2015, 06:01:28 AM

Hi all,

If I ever get from around this harvest, I don't even want to see a rose bush grow
If I ever get from around this harvest, I don't even want to see a rose bush grow
And if anybody ask me about the country, Lord have mercy on his soul

Mercy Dee Walton-"Have You Ever Been Out In The Country?"

All best,
Johnm

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: StoogeKebab on June 03, 2015, 02:37:12 AM

"I just love myself 'cause I'm who I am"
- Lightnin' Hopkins, Blues is My Business (Live 1971), intro to 'Rock Me Baby'

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: lindy on June 12, 2015, 10:22:24 PM

You've got to realize, in the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.       --Ornette Coleman

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: Johnm on June 16, 2015, 02:38:15 PM

Hi all,
   I'll sail the Atlantic Ocean, also the Chesapeake Bay
   I'll sail the Atlantic Ocean, also the Chesapeake Bay
   I was tryin' to spy the Pyrenee Mountains, where the eagle pullets lay

   "Bald Eagle Blues"--Willie "61" Blackwell

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: uncle bud on August 02, 2015, 06:26:48 AM

Most country blues singers sound like courting seals. - jazz critic Whitney Balliett, in the New Yorker, 1964

(Got that one out of the Rev Gary Davis biography,  Say No to the Devil)

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: StoogeKebab on August 15, 2015, 11:33:28 PM

?I don?t mind playing the guitar but honest to God I hate to tune them, let me tell you? - Bukka White, at the Ash Grove, September 10 1967

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: Johnm on August 17, 2015, 11:44:00 AM

"She just like a watermelon vine, runnin' all over this town"

                     Emery Glen--"Fifth Street Blues"

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: Rivers on October 24, 2015, 06:08:36 PM

Inspiration does exist but it must find us working - Picasso (1881-1973)

Title: Re: It was not told to me, I only heard - Quote Drive 2015
Post by: Mr.OMuck on October 24, 2015, 08:51:04 PM

"You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can`t you hear it in my voice? "

Muddy Waters