Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
TOM PETTYWhen you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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