"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing." ~Ethel Waters
"I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily. ~Dwayne Johnson
"Singing becomes a form of therapy." ~Placido Domingo
"The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning." ~John Lee Hooker
"The Blues is Life." ~Brownie McGhee
"The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad." ~Leon Redbone
"The history of a people is found in its songs." ~George Jellinek
"Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things." ~Big Bill Broonzy
"So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne