Dirt Road Blues

Famous quotes containing the words dirt, road and/or blues:

“What an antithetical mind!—tenderness, roughness—delicacy, coarseness—sentiment, sensuality—soaring and grovelling, dirt and deity—all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
—J.R.R. (John Ronald Revel)

“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)