You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
TOM PETTYWhat 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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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock ‘n’ roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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I wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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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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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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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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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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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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