1. "Atlanta Blues,"
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Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
2. "Blind Pig Blues"
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Tom Franklin, The Tilted World
3. "Mississippi Heavy Water Blues"
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Tom Franklin, The Tilted World
4. "ocean's snaking blues beyond the meadow"
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Cleopatra Mathis, Book of Dog: Poems
5. "I've had the blues for twenty-four years."
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Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
6. "Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues."
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Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
7. "You might say that the universe plays the blues."
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David Byrne, How Music Works
8. "Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing."
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Quote by Chris Rock
9. "All music is the blues. All of it."
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George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty
10. "You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues."
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Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver