David Mutti Clark Quotes & Sayings

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

The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we're bound. — David Mutti Clark

You hear lots of notes, don't you? Some have a major sound. Some have a minor sound. But there's not one blue note among all these black and white keys. The real blues, the soul of the sound, comes from the spaces in-between. — David Mutti Clark

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

I've never met God, but I've heard the blues. — David Mutti Clark

Now listen for your song. Everybody's got a song. When I used to chase the Trane - John Coltrane that is - he used to tell me, 'If I know a man's sound, I know the man.' Do you hear the melody playing in your mind? Does it move you, nudge you off your seat? — David Mutti Clark

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

And here's to the blues, the real blues - where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation. — David Mutti Clark

The music plays ... and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream. — 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