Blues Artist

Famous quotes containing the words blues and/or artist:

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

“That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art—panem et Circen.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)