People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost.
Lighten up while you still can, don’t even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It’s whatever it is you see that life will become.
No matter how close to yours another’s steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you’ll do alone.
Don’t confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
I’ve been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it’s the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you’ll get up and do it again.
We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we’ll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.
Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it’s up to you to make something new.
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I’ll just say this really quickly – they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
And while the future’s there for anyone to change, still you know it’s seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that’s probably my favorite thing that I’ve done.
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let’s face it.
I’m not sure what I’m trying to say, it could be that I’ve lost my way.
You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who’s left when the war is won?
Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they’re really mean to each other about who makes what.
But when you know that you’ve got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.