blues, n.All

The Blues slows one down and gives one time to think.

The Blues is the expression of the emotional life of a race.

The Blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.

The Blues is a genre that emerged from the spirit's need for some way to dance through the heavy mess.

The Blues is, for the black blues singer, like being black two times.

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread'without it, it's flat.

The Blues came from the man farthest down, from nothingness, from want, from desire, and to sing it was to satisfy a small part of that want.

The Blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances whether created by others or by one's own human failings.