"All music derives from blues and gospel," Taylor once said. "When you seek a higher power, that gives you the gospel. When you want to share your experience so that you can move on and go on, that's the blues. It doesn't have to be depressing. It's life itself."   more »

I love black gospel music more than anything and I just can't sing it; it's very frustrating to me. So I do the best I can but it's sort of useless; I get better at it every year but I'll never be the thing that I'm imitating. - Al Kooper .  Blood, Sweat and Tears

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

Vonnegut from The Sirens of Titan