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The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Blues Creation People Product

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When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Blues Dancer Determines Existential Fulfilling Fundamental He Man Medicine Mission Musician Poet Priest Requirement Same Swings

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A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.

~Albert Murray

Topics: American Based Blues Chorus Composition Either Jazz Melody Popular Song Traditional Tune

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The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

~Alberta Hunter

Topics: About Best Blues Could Know Me Music Musicians Play Want Who

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Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

~Alberta Hunter

Topics: Baby Because Been Blues Disturbed Does Hearts Hurt Means Milk Minister Our Sing Souls Spirit

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I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

~Alex Chilton

Topics: Appropriate Blues Country Early Every Few Here Late Like Lot Memphis Players Record Remember Seems Spent Studying Styles Where Will Years I Remember

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Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.

~Alex Clare

Topics: Also Blues Coltrane Growing Growing Up James Jazz John John Coltrane Listened Lot Radiohead Really Records Up

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Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

~Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Topics: Blues Chicken Cured Every Every Time Potato Roast Time Winter

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Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

~Alexis Korner

Topics: Away Blues Family Jazz Left Me Pulled

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I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

~Alexis Korner

Topics: Being Beneficial Blues Both Form Guess Itself Legal Music Only Organised Particularly Schizophrenia Society

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