In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
TOM PETTYIf you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
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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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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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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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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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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 think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.
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I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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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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If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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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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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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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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