Griot 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

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

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

~ David Mutti Clark

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

~ David Mutti Clark

Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?

~ David Mutti Clark

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