"And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking."
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"There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them."
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"May God bless and keep you always, May your wishes all come true, May you always do for others And let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung, May you stay forever young."
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"I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you."
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"You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope"
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"I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else."
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"I make my stand and remain as I am, and bid farewell and not give a damn."
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"Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore."
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"If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you."
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"One should never be where one does not belong."
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"I don't think I'm tangible to myself."
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"Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference."
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"Never make it perfect."
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"I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right."
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"My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record."
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"Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true"
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"Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored"
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"Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?"
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"I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio."
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"The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out."
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