I think I first heard that quote in the 1986 movie CROSSROADS with Ralph Macchio.
It's Saturday and I'm in a bluesy kinda mood. I've been up since 6am doing paperwork, making phone calls, chatting with friends and listening to Blues music on the internet.
I found 2 YouTube videos of Bluesman John Lee Hooker, so I'm adding them to my library.
Hobo Blues
and
Tupelo
John Lee Hooker was an American post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Mississippi, near Clarsdale. His influence and style can be heard on many different guitarists, some present (Clapton) and some who have passed (Stevie Ray Vaughn) born in 1917 and died in 2001.
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Kentuck
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Apr 5 @ 1:40PM
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For years: people have tried to define the Blues, Dixie Land Jazz, Jazz and clipzo (spelling). The blues is that type of feelings where a man can drown himself in a fifth of bourbon, dream of his long lost love, or dream of things that could have been. The people of the South, put it to music. Later it moved north to the gegto of the large cities.
During the days of segration, the best music was played in rag town--you have heard of rag town blues. Great artist would meet and play all night after their gig uptown.
Ye, that brings great memories. Lou Raws--"tobacco Road"" Nina siemon "old rag man" or Porgie and Bess" West Mongomery, and the list goes on.
It has a history and was born and raised in the south--but you must has a south soul to understand it. Like the Hawk--it was born and raised down town Chicago in the Loop Michigan and Devine It was the misery of the cold from the ice cold wind off Lake Michigan that froze tha ass off of the poor people and the likes in the Loop--Misery--the blues.
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JimNastics
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Apr 5 @ 2:36PM
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originating on the plantations and then spread to the inner cities, the blues is not about a man feeling sad. It's about a person in a bad situation raising themselves up through musical expression. Along with jazz, it is America's only living original art forms.
Billie Holiday
Etta James
Ray Chales
BB King
Freddie King
Albert King
Robert Cray
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Artie (Blues Boy) White
Little Milton (Campbell)
Muddy Waters
T. Bone Walker
Buddy Guy
Otis Rush
Son Seals
Lonnie Brooks
Luther Allison
Rusty Zinn
Albert Collins
The Kinsey Report
Debbie Davies
E C Scott
Michael Hill
Kenny Neal
are just a few of the amazing musician/vocalist who's genre has predominantly been the blues (in case anyone wants to research it).
There is probably not a serious musician alive,
who has not in some way been influenced by this music.
Long live the blues !  
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texasblues
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Apr 6 @ 12:50AM
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the blues has been a passion for me all my life. I was born in Mississippi on a poor rural farm. When my father could no longer make a living trying to raise cotton out of over worked soil he moved us north to Cicero on the edge of Chicago (across the street) while it wasn't exactly hell there we where close enough to see the flames and smell the burning. I've lived in Houston now for 33 years another blues center. To me the blues has always been a form of release, letting those songs take away my sadness, hurt, sorrow and letting the joy of the music replace them. 
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