Aspiring Blues Artist Gifts

"Mom, will you put me in time out. You gotta pay the dues if you want to sing the blues."

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

"Michael, your father and I are worried that you're awfully young to be singing the blues."

Famous Jewish Blues Singer Series.

"I'm gonna be a 'New Yorker' cartoonist. You're not supposed to understand it."

"What do you want to be when you blow up?"

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

"My wife has always encouraged me... ...to quit this stupid dream and get a real job." ... "You have a wife?"

"I've got those 'Don't worry about me, I'll just be here, all alone' blues."

"This next one is a typical blues number about exceeding your data plan limit, cracking your ipad screen, and losing your new ear buds."

Blues artis's daily list

The Great Blues Heron, Live at the Sandbar

"Obviously, I can't fly like you, but if you teach me, I can probably sing like you..."

Modern Life Blues

'Man it's a tough crowd tonight!'

'Hey guys?. . . Help us think what Dale could do for his '15 minutes of fame.''

Children's Imagination

'He's the bluesman's bluesman.'

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

"Nobody at school will laugh at me."

'I couldn't practice last night on account of my Dad's head was gonna' explode.'

"If I had it all to do over again, I would have liked to be the King of Swing."

Robert Johnson

"I've made a fortune as a successful artist! I couldn't see this happening if I became a soldier or a worker..."

"That'll be the day!"