Human Blues Quotes

“What even is a voice? It’s the sound one makes with one’s larynx. The way one makes oneself heard. Breath, vibration, a style of narration. Phrasing. And when you’re singing from your bones and bowels, these things don’t need explaining. Everyone can feel it in their bones and bowels, animals and plants included. An unpasteurized experience. Honesty is the ultimate life giver. What would you do with all the energy you’d save if you never had to lie?”
― Elisa Albert, Human Blues

“A special voice, an arresting voice, impossible to ignore. She didn’t always hit precise notes—she wasn’t some formalist, some scientist, some striver—but she sang from her gut and she meant it. Her voice a living organism: no song ever, ever the same twice.”
― Elisa Albert, Human Blues

“A deceptively simple blues for when you need to be brought back to earth, reminded who you are. The song opened and opened and kept on opening. You could dance to it, drop down into your pelvis, let it make you funnier, funkier, smarter, skankier, snarkier, stankier. Listen to how smart this girl is! How self-aware and funny. A step ahead of everyone else.”
― Elisa Albert, Human Blues