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    Best life advice from song lyrics....

    So many song lyrics are quite philosophical..

    Sex pistols... "Don't be told what you want, don't be told what you need"
    Beatles... "All you need is love"
    Jethro Tull... "He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays"

    So much advice... Some good, some bad.

    Any more words of wisdom from song lyrics?
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    The Who - "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

    Rush - "Learning that we're only immortal, for a limited time".

    Pink Floyd - "Everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon."

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    Journey... "Don't stop believin"
    Genesis... "gambling only pays when your winning"
    Neil young.... Every junkies like the setting son.

    King Crimson has a bunch I'm sure....
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    MARiLLiON: “there's a man up in a mirrored building and he just bought the world”

    RUSH (again): “quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand; ignorance, prejudice and fear walk hand in hand”.

    BLACKFiELD: “fuck you all, fuck you. i don't care anymore. go to hell.”

    FAITHLESS: “inaction is a weapon of mass destruction.”

    i could go on and on. lovely thread nijinski. may it go on forever.

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    "You can lead a man to slaughter but you're never gonna make him think." - Roy Harper

    "Some people never see the light 'til it shines through bullet holes." - Bruce Cockburn

    "Only lovers die for love." - Richard Thompson

    "Don't ever die for love." - Daryl Hall

    Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?

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    Dylan and Lennon. Too many to cite.

    One of my faves from John is, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
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    One of my faves:

    Marillion: "Failure isn't about falling down. Failure is staying down."
    Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally

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    "I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love." As Sir Paul found out.

    "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you might find, you get what you need."

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    "If you make a stand on a dead empty hand never let 'em see your cards"

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    Fools fall in love, wise men they fall too. Wise men hit the bottom, fools just fall on through.
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    For every women who ever made a fool of a man, there's a woman made a man of a fool.
    --Nick Lowe

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    Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

    Lennon
    "The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"

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    "You don't get something for nothing
    You can't have freedom for free
    You won't get wise
    With the sleep still in your eyes
    No matter what your dreams might be"

    -Rush-
    "Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."

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    "Physician, heal thyself" - Ad Infinitum ...well, it is from the bible originally.

    Rush, from "Open Secrets" :
    I was looking out the window
    I should have looked at your face instead...
    The things that we're concealing
    Will never let us grow...
    You could try to understand me
    I could try to understand you...
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    "You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to,
    So that when they turn their backs on you,
    You'll get the chance to put the knife in."

    -Pink Floyd-
    "Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."

    -Cozy 3:16-

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    Quote Originally Posted by iguana View Post

    i could go on and on. lovely thread nijinski. may it go on forever.
    With so many song lyrics offering life advice... This thread could end up being pretty long. Throughout my 58 years I have taken a lot of advice from song lyrics... Haha.
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    "The men at the factory are old and cunning, you don't owe nothing boy get running, the best years of your life they want to steal!"

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    "It all depends on money... And who is in your family tree."

    Supertramp.
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    Beatles - "Why, tell me why did you not treat me right? Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight."

    Peter Gabriel - "Don't give up"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Garden Dreamer View Post
    Rush, from "Open Secrets" :
    I was looking out the window
    I should have looked at your face instead...
    The things that we're concealing
    Will never let us grow...
    You could try to understand me
    I could try to understand you...
    that is one of their most underrated songs. any namecheck of it is most welcome. that drum roll on 1:05 alone is sheer genius.

    Quote Originally Posted by Nijinsky Hind View Post
    With so many song lyrics offering life advice... This thread could end up being pretty long. Throughout my 58 years I have taken a lot of advice from song lyrics... Haha.
    look where this got us… long-time residents on PE … ;-)>

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Bails View Post
    One of my faves:

    Marillion: "Failure isn't about falling down. Failure is staying down."
    Love that one too!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yves View Post
    "You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to,
    So that when they turn their backs on you,
    You'll get the chance to put the knife in."

    -Pink Floyd-
    Another great one.

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    Succeeding is believing in yourself.. John Wetton
    Come mothers and fathers
    Throughout the land
    And don’t criticize
    What you can’t understand
    Your sons and your daughters
    Are beyond your command
    Your old road is rapidly agin’
    Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand
    For the times they are a-changin’ Bob Dylan
    (In truth the whole song is full of them..)

    Like others way too many of McCartney, Lennon Dylan to list..
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