Spencer Blues Explosion

Famous quotes containing the words spencer, blues and/or explosion:

“Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)

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

“Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion ....”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)