David Clark > David's Quotes

“And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.”
― David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

“There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you. And when it lands on your ears, when you hear it for the first time, you instantly recognize it― because it’s like bumping into an ageless, best friend.”
― David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

“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.”
― David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

“You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?”
― David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

“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.”
― David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

“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?”
― David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

“The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.”
― David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

“Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?”
― David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

“The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.”
― David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― kurt vonnegut

“Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.”
― Buddy Guy

“I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll.”
― Cornel West, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir

“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.”
― David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

“I've never met God, but I've heard the blues.”
― David Mutti Clark