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Quotes & Lyrics

Here are some of my favorite music, movie, literary and political quotes.
The collection is always growing, so feel free to suggest additions.
 
 

 
"I was just wondering if you'd come along, to hold up my head when my head won't hold on. I'll do the same if the same's what you want. But if not, I'll go. I will go alone. ... I was just wondering if you'd come along. Tell me you will." -- Dave Matthews Band, "The Stone"
 
"I remember thinking, I'll go on forever only knowing I'll see you again."
-- Dave Matthews Band, "I'll Back You Up"
 
"I will give you water, if you will share your wine. And I will feed your heart, if you promise to feed mine. And so we'll dance together, until the end of time." -- Dave Matthews Band, "Water/Wine Jam"
 
"A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me." -- Dave Matthews Band, "#40"
 
"Love - what more is there?" -- Dave Matthews Band, "Pig"
 
"Love is hell." -- Dave Matthews Band, "Halloween"
 
"She feels like kicking out all the windows and setting fire to this life. She could change everything about her, using colors bold and bright. But all the colors mix together to grey. And it breaks her heart." -- Dave Matthews Band, "Grey Street"
 
"I hit this corner, my foot on the gas. I started sliding. I lose it. Everything's different, just like that." -- Dave Matthews, "So Damn Lucky"
 
"The future is no place to place your better days." -- Dave Matthews Band, "Cry Freedom"
 
"I've been praying for some way to show them I'm not what they see." -- Dave Matthews Band, "The Stone"
 
"Take a look again at things you have collected. In the end it all ties up so tall to one big nothing, one big nothing at all." -- Dave Matthews Band, "Seek Up"
 
"Every day things change, but basically they stay the same." -- Dave Matthews Band, "Seek Up"
 
"Celebrate we will, 'cause life is short but sweet for certain." -- Dave Matthews Band, "Two Step"
 
"You can't see what I can, 'cause I blindly throw my faith to the face of the next pretty girl that comes my way." -- Dave Matthews Band, "Granny"
 
"War, the only way to peace? Well, I don't fall for that." -- Dave Matthews Band, "The Last Stop"
 
"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves, dreaming of things that we might have been." -- Dave Matthews Band, "Lie In Our Graves"
 
"Do what you will, always walk where you like your steps, do as you please, I'll back you up." -- Dave Matthews Band, "I'll Back You Up"
 
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"I can't help thinking, if we could have held it all together, where would we be now." -- Matchbox 20, "Beautiful Girl"
 
"Something flickered for a minute, but then it vanished and was gone." -- Lou Reed, "Romeo Had Juliette"
 
 
 
 
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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." -- Frank Zappa
 
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
"We can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal." -- John F. Kennedy
 
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." -- Atticus Finch, "To Kill A Mockingbird"
 
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmunde Burke
 
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein
 
"Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?" -- Robert F. Kennedy 
 
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Always." -- Mahatma Gandhi
 
"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." -- Heinrich Heine
 
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there." --Clare Booth Luce
 
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster." -- Frederick Wilhelm Nietsche
 
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire
 
"Reminds me of my expedition into the wilds of Afghanistan. We lost our corkscrew and were compelled to live on food and water for several days." -- W.C. Fields
 
"Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, well, I have others." -- Groucho Marx
 
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx