Quotes About History

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.

Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I find that style amusing, and I think it's a little harder to write.

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

There was a great blues scene in Belfast during the late '60s.

I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.

Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

Can you imagine what five or 10 dollars was like in 1925? In those days, you could get room and board for $1.50 a week. Room and board!

Europe has been in my bones.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

I want to keep making history, keep entertaining, and keep making guys shake in their boots.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

We love our history in Boston.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

History is very much bound up in family experience.

At the time that they were shown, the Brillo Boxes were underappreciated. It's only now, with the patina of history, that we can really see these masterpieces in a clear light.

If, in 10 years, or 20 or 30 years, you sit down with your friends and talk about boxing, you need to remember my name.

Boxing is a big part of American cinema.