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Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.