Following quote pulled from 2026 documentary, Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul, as introduced on AZ Big Media.com by writer Christina Fuoco-Karasinski.
“Every one has the blues. You come out of your mama’s womb, crying and you have the blues.”
-Gregg Allman, musician, d. 2017
Said Allman's manager, Michael Lehman, "Some of the things that come out of his mouth are mind-blowing." Adds Fuoco-Karasinski, "It’s the kind of observation that reveals not just a musician, but a philosopher — someone who understood suffering as a universal condition and turned it into art."
Thus, one may fathom connections to the quote in both Buddhism and Christianity.
Buddha: Life is 'suffering' (Pali, dukkha).[1]
Jesus Christ: In this world you will have trouble (Jn 16.33 NIV).
Note
1. Other translations of Pali word, 'dukkha' are workable, such as, 'unease' or 'unsatisfying;' consult Wikipedia article '
Duhkha.' See, Walpola Rahula,
What The Buddha Taught (NY: Grove Press, 1983), p. 16, "The First Noble Truth (Dukkha-ariyasacca) is generally translated by almost all scholars as 'The Noble Truth of Suffering', and it is interpreted to mean that life according to Buddhism is nothing but suffering and pain. Both translation and interpretation are highly unsatisfactory and misleading." Also, p. 17, "It is admitted that the term dukkha in the First Noble Truth contains, quite obviously, the ordinary meaning of 'suffering', but in addition it also includes deeper ideas such as 'imperfection', 'impermanence', 'emptiness', 'insubstantiality'. Cf., Michael Carrithers,
The Buddha (NY: Oxford, 1996), p. 55, "Let us take the first Truth, that of the existence of suffering, in a form in which the Buddha is traditionally thought to have explained it shortly after the awakening. That description begins thus: 'What is the Noble Truth of Suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering' (S V 421)." [This is a translation from Pali text, Sam yutta Nikaya, volume 5, p. 421.]
