every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain
People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you're satisfied one moment - saying yes, it's a good meal, makes me happy - well, that's not going to necessarily be true the next hour. Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Time is your soul mate. Children are happy. But they haven't really experienced ups and downs yet. I'm not exactly sure what happiness even means. I don't know if I personally could define it.
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.
The longer you live, the better you get.
I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.
Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to be a singer that sings at somebody. I've always wanted to sing to somebody. I would have gotten that subliminally from Frank many years ago. Hank Williams did that, too. He sang to you.
I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.
Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.
I don't really have a retirement plan.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
I fought with my twin, the enemy within.
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
One should never be where one does not belong.
Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.
Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down
Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth
For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.
The times they are a-changing.
Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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