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Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
Robert Plant

Music, Dark, American

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson

Live, Big, Easy

The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.
Alexander McCall Smith

Great, Rather, Sea

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Mark Knopfler

Music, Place, Idea

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.
Sylvia Browne

Dreams, Everyone, Everybody

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.
Jeri Ryan

Place, Truly, Middle

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
Charles Evers

Through, Baby, Took

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.
John Hickenlooper

Time, Car, Small

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
Muddy Waters

Through, Old, Hear

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
Edwidge Danticat

Different, Moment, Force

We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.
John Hull

Alone, Cannot, Beginning

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.
David Edwards

Women, Sad, Big

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.
Margaret Smith

Parents, Wait, Often

I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.
Bo Gritz

Learned, Risk, Military

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
Little Milton

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