“You should have felt the buzz the moment all five of us got together in the same room for the first time again. We all started laughin'—it was like the five years had never passed. We knew we'd made the right move.”

“The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.”

“Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .”

“We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing”

“My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!”

“Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.”

“They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.”