"It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta……" — Tim Cahill
"It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well."
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44 Quotes by Tim Cahill
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I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
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You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.
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The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the…
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The explorer is the person who is lost.
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An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical…
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Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first…
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When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or…
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The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an…
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A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in…
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Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.
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I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer.…
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I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion,…
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More Blues Quotes
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one of 667 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
— Count Basie
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Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
— Christina Aguilera
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I…
— Jeff Bridges
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'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.
— Luke Bryan
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to…
— Gary Allan
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
— Nick Cave
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I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music,…
— Nick Cave
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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth.…
— Ray Charles
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my…
— Eric Clapton
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