"The blues style - moody or rollicking or……" — Tim Cahill
"The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore."
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44 Quotes by Tim Cahill
Tim Cahill has 44 quotes on this site.
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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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