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

*Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

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

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

is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.

As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.

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.

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.

is the expression of the emotional life of a race.

In its origin, modern blues music is the expression of the emotional life of a race.

 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 came from the man farthest down. The blues came from nothingness, from want, from desire. And when a man sang or played the blues, a small part of the want was satisfied.

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

That's how the blues emerged, by the way'/Our spirits needed a way to dance through the heavy mess./The music, a sack that carries the bone of those left alongside/The trail of tears when we were forced/To leave everything we knew by the way.

 slows one down and gives one time to think.

The blues slows you down and gives you time to think.

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