"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character."

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"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character."

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"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."

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