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"I asked Bill to accompany this presentation with something in a haunting minor key."

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

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

"The artist-in-residence is struggling a bit, but other than that we're fine."

Neil Young

Lord Byron

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

"In closing, I'd just like to say you've been a great crowd, folks. Don't forget to tip your waitress, and I hope this final number breaks your heart the way show business broke mine."

'I hate my life.

"Half-full. Those were the days."

'Dreams of how it might have been.'

"Woke up this mornin', Found myself trapped in the Blues genre..."

DOUR and TROUBADOUR

"Perhaps a dirge would lift your spirits?"

"Our flavors of the day are Prodigal, Importune, and Mal de Siècle."

Books: Success stories & Sob stories.

"I never got a chance to say 'Shut up.' "

'I think our marriage would make a great country song.'

Bored couple.

Just go ahead and draw - I can't hit the broad side of a barn lately. Naw, I ain't really in the mood today. Low Noon.

Picasso's Blues Period

Man has storm cloud umbrella.

Tears

"Fall makes him sad."

Items from the Fall 2018 Melancholia Catalogue.

Death awaits the last leaf of Autumn with a rake.

Tailpiece to E Dowson's 'The Pierrot of the Minute'

Sad Songs.

Where the boulevard of broken dreams crosses the avenue of broken appliances...

"I'm full of an unspeakable sadness and it goes a little something like this..."

"I like sad songs."

'Boy...usually it just gently weeps.'

There's a tear in my beer.

Why must you have "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" on the jukebox? A lot of people complained that "Happy Hour" was too happy.

'We thought it fit his rather plaintive personality.'