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Well I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down

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.

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

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

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.

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.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.

Even the losers get lucky sometimes!

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

Whatever you're looking for, don't come around here no more.

I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.

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.

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.

I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times

Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.

I can't crawl any further. You never crawled for me.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down ...

He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.

I'm tired of screwing up. I'm tired of being down. I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of bein' down.

I think it's important to always offer something new.

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.

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!

A rebel without a clue.

So I started out for God knows where.
I guess I'll know when I get there.

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

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.

Let's get to the point Let's roll another joint

I've always had a great love for the blues.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

You believe what you want to believe

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

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

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

Running down a dream ... working on a mystery ... going wherever it leads ...

Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.

If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.

Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.

Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.

Yeah, the world would swing if I were king.
Can I help it if I still dream time to time?

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.

I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.

The waiting is the hardest part.

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.

You belong somewhere you feel free.

I have never been comfortable being the front man.

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.

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.

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.

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.

Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.

Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.

Some grow young, some grow cold ...

There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.

When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.

Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had.

'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.

We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.

There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.

If you don't run, you rust.

most things I worry 'bout never happen anyway

We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.

He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

Yeah and it's over before you know it
It all goes by so fast
Yeah the bad nights take forever
And the good nights don't ever seem to last

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?