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If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

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But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who ...more

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I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.

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why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

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A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

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The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do whatever you wanted -in the ads and in the...more

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You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

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Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come againAnd don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in...more

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Once upon a time You dressed so fine

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Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

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He not busy being born is busy dying.

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I was always fishing for something on the radio. Just like trains and bells, it was part of the soundtrack of my life. I moved the dial up and down an...more

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Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. So...more

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..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived i...more

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I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs tha...more