Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
August WilsonRead
Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Blues music influences and shapes the creative expression in my work.
In this quote, August Wilson emphasizes the profound impact of blues music on his artistic creations. He implies that the themes, characters, and emotional depths found in his plays are rooted in the essence of blues, reflecting the struggles and experiences of life that the genre embodies.
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BluesArtMusicCreativityExpression
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech at an arts gala, you can highlight how your work reflects your life's experiences, similar to the blues.
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All quotes →I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.
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All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
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I do - very specifically, I remember Bessie Smith; I used to collect 78 records that I would buy from the St Vincent de Paul store at five cents apiece, and I did this indiscriminately. I would just take whatever was there. And I listened to Patti Page and Walter Huston, 'September Song.'
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I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.
August WilsonRead
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to make art out of their dialogue I had to change it, make it into something different. Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I let them start talking.
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