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.
TOM PETTYSometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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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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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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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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I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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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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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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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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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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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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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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A rebel without a clue.
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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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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I’ll get you back someday.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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