Singing The Blues Quotes
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I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field.... They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, I tell you what: These doggone white people - not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.
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If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make people feel good. They were singing fast - and she was singing the blues.
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My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was happy and was going to pat me on the head and say I was good. But he took me home and told my grandmother this youngin' was at school singing the blues.
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God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
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Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.
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Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
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See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
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A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
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When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
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Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
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