Spencer Blues Explosion

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

    “Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.”
    —Anne Spencer (1882–1975)

    “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)