If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
TOM PETTYIt’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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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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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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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And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It’s hard to find a friend. It’s hard to find a friend.
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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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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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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