A deep meaning often lies in old customs.
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.