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Blues - art of ambiguity

“The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad” — Leon Redbone

“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.” — Ralph Ellison

Inspirational quotes - music, the blues and creativity

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” — Aaron Copland

“When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.” — Eric Dolphy 

“A song is anything that can walk by itself.” — Bob Dylan 

“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.” — Duke Ellington

“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.” — Jimi Hendrix

“The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.” — Jimi Hendrix

“I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.” — John Lee Hooker

“I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.” — John Lee Hooker 

“The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.” — John Lee Hooker 

“I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.” — Howlin' Wolf

“Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.” — Janis Joplin

“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.” — Janis Joplin

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.” — Charles Mingus 

“The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.” — Jimmy Rushing 

“The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.” — Jimmy Rushing 

“The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” — Bruce Springsteen

"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory." — Muddy Waters 

"There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money." — Muddy Waters 

Gypsie Lane - video

production: PROSPEKT. producer: Todd Weinstein. video: Peter Norrman. motion-studies/photo sequences: © Todd Weinstein. art director: Peter Norrman. music and words: 'Gypsie Lane' © by Denny Brown. programming: Ralph Lichtensteiger/onclick Berlin. copyright: © 2009 Todd Weinstein Production and PROSPEKT.

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