And here's to the blues, the real blues—...... Quote by "David Mutti Clark"

And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.
— David Mutti Clark Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

Tags: truth, troubadour, spirituality, race-relations, music, griot, blues

Other Quotes by "David Mutti Clark"

Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’ Do you hear the melody playing in your mind? Does it move you, nudge you off your seat?
— David Mutti Clark Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

Tags: spirituality, purpose, meaning, jazz, blues

The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.
— David Mutti Clark Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

Tags: spirituality, reality, meaning, dream, blues

You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?
— David Mutti Clark Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

Tags: troubadour, spirituality, meaning-of-life, griot, blues

The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.
— David Mutti Clark Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

Tags: troubadour, spirituality, music, griot, death-and-dying, blues

We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.
— David Mutti Clark Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

Tags: troubadour, spirituality, music, griot, god, blues