{"quotes":[{"text":"What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categoriesthat restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control.","author":"Richelle Mead","tags":["blues","georgina","kincaid","mead","richelle","succubus"],"id":158,"author_id":"Richelle+Mead"},{"text":"I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.","author":"Alexis Korner","tags":["music","society","blues "],"id":4600,"author_id":"Alexis+Korner"},{"text":"Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.","author":"Eric Clapton","tags":["blues","music","ray-charles","soul"],"id":11474,"author_id":"Eric+Clapton"},{"text":"I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.","author":"Ben Harper","tags":["music","american","blues "],"id":14666,"author_id":"Ben+Harper"},{"text":"The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.","author":"Elvis Presley","tags":["service","thought","blues "],"id":35142,"author_id":"Elvis+Presley"},{"text":"Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.","author":"Brad Renfro","tags":["day","play","blues "],"id":35179,"author_id":"Brad+Renfro"},{"text":"After we became a couple, she composed our time together. She planned days as if they were artistic events. One afternoon we went to Tybee Island for a picnic; we ate blueberries and drank champagne tinted with curacao and listened to Miles Davis, and when I asked the name of her perfume, she said it was L'Heure Bleue.She talked about 'perfect moments.' One such moment happened that afternoon; she'd been napping; I lay next to her, reading. She said, 'I'll always remember the sounds of the sea and of pages turning, and the smell of L'Heure Bleue. For me they signify love.","author":"Susan Hubbard","tags":["blue","blues","champagne","curacao","l-heure-bleue","miles-davis","ocean","perfect-moments","perfume","picnic","sea","tybee-island"],"id":41978,"author_id":"Susan+Hubbard"},{"text":"I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.","author":"Bob Livingston","tags":["blues","sad songs","songs "],"id":43003,"author_id":"Bob+Livingston"},{"text":"And a ride in a hearse tells us we’re all close to that final cruise . . . When the body dies and we move on. It’s just the body, man. It’s just the body. The soul’s already gone. So don’t be afraid of a dead body absent a soul. It’s empty, man. No resident. What you need to worry about is a living body that’s lost its soul. Now that is scary, man.” - Funk N. Wagnalls, owner of the Grim Reapers auto lot, a character in Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues.","author":"David Mutti Clark","tags":["blues","death-and-dying","grateful-dead","griot","hearse","music","rock-and-roll","soul"],"id":51310,"author_id":"David+Mutti+Clark"},{"text":"Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?","author":"David Mutti Clark","tags":["blues","griot","meaning","muse","troubadour"],"id":52841,"author_id":"David+Mutti+Clark"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":78,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}