Sings Blues

Famous quotes containing the words sings and/or blues:

    “She sings of a sword so white,
    so luminous, that its own light
    alone must slay;
    she sings of a sword, a sword, a sword,
    and I creep away.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

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