The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.


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If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?...
TOM WILSON
What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.
TOM WILSON
The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
TOM WILSON
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
TOM WILSON
If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've l...
TOM WILSON
Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
TOM WILSON
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
TOM WILSON
There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
TOM WILSON
Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
TOM WILSON
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
TOM WILSON
If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.
TOM WILSON
I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
TOM WILSON
Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
TOM WILSON
A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
TOM WILSON
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
TOM WOLFE
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
TOM STOPPARD
Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.
TOM WOLFE
Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of disease...
TOM ALLEN
Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards,...
TOM HANKS
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. B...
TOM STOPPARD
Everybody who is anyone wanted to meet a real life gangster, and here's Joey Gallo hitting the s...
TOM FOLSOM
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
TOM LANDRY
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can lite...
TOM STOPPARD
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned w...
TOM WATSON
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what i...
TOM WATSON
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick invo...
TOM PETTY
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term w...
TOM STOPPARD
Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
TOM LEHRER
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
TOM HANKS
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
TOM STOPPARD
I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has f...
TOM COTTON
When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I...
TOM STOPPARD