Gems Quote by Etheridge Knight Download Open image “To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.” — Etheridge Knight ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gems Graves Music Pluck Riot Song Writing
The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it. — Odetta Copy Share Image
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God. — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my… — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture… — Walsham How Copy Share Image
Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues… — Jeremy Shearmur Copy Share Image
The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and… — Lissa Rankin Copy Share Image
Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a gem of… — L. Jon Wertheim Copy Share Image
I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. — William Hamilton Gibson Copy Share Image
When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ...… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems. — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
