I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
TOM PETTYGeorge 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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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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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 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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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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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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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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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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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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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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