"When I was sixteen, I wrote the first……" — Jonathan Tropper
"When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician."
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60 Quotes by Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper has 60 quotes on this site.
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We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to…
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We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living…
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There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no…
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That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
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Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
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At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.
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I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took…
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She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being…
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Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and…
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But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see…
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You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all…
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And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties,…
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More Blues Quotes
This quote is filed under Blues Quotes,
one of 667 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
— Count Basie
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Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
— Christina Aguilera
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I…
— Jeff Bridges
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'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.
— Luke Bryan
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to…
— Gary Allan
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
— Nick Cave
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I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music,…
— Nick Cave
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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth.…
— Ray Charles
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my…
— Eric Clapton
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