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“We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.”

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Book:Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

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“And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.”

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“And a ride in a hearse tells us we’re all close to that final cruise . . . when the body dies and we move on. It’s just the body, man. It’s just the body. The soul’s already gone. So don’t be afraid of a dead body absent a soul. It’s empty, man. No resident. What you need to worry about is a living body that’s lost its soul. Now that is scary, man.” - Funk N. Wagnalls, owner of the Grim Reapers auto lot, a character in Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues.”

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“The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.”

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“You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?”

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Book:Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

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“The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.”

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Book:Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

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“Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’ Do you hear the melody playing in your mind? Does it move you, nudge you off your seat?”

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Book:Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

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“You hear lots of notes, don’t you? Some have a major sound. Some have a minor sound. But there’s not one blue note among all these black and white keys. The real blues, the soul of the sound, comes from the spaces in-between.”

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Book:Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

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