You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.
The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding.
A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.
The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.
There is a beauty in every hell!
To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us.
I started using the Internet in 1999. That was pretty late. But as soon as I did I just stopped watching TV. The idea of sitting down and waiting for a TV show at a certain time, I couldn't do this anymore. The Internet is a better form of entertainment to me.
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.