"'Daddy, who's God, and what's on his mind?', 'That's a good question, I replied.'."

-Dave Mason, 1975

"Before I leave, I certainly want to say thanks to all my friends who helped me on my way."

-Jerry Lynn Williams, 1978

"I can't wait any longer for paradise -- I told you once, I'm not gonna tell you twice."

-C. McVie, E. Quintela, 1990

"Have you heard about the ones who can't get to sleep at night, walking through their shoes in the neon light? There's a strain in their faces from the wind and the sand, of the far away places where they had to make a stand."

-Paul Cotton, 1980

"Even cybersecurity software ...  requires sound cybersecurity practices."

-Steven T., 2024

"Wait in line, shut up, take off your shoes, remove all metal objects, no more than 3 ounces."

-TSA agent, 2022

"The only thing worse than sending an email about a cybersecurity concern, is the inability to do so."

-Steven T., 2024

"We all know how the rules are changin' from day to day -- that's the breaks, and I'm sorry -- some of us must be going, some of us have to stay."

-Joe Walsh, 1972

"Never let a good crisis go to waste."

-Winston Churchill

"Some things are over, some things go on; part of me you carry -- a part of me is gone."

-Tom Petty, 1996

"All around your island, there's a barricade -- it keeps out the danger, it holds in the pain."

-Tom Petty, 1996

"I can't go to school 'cause I ain't got a gun -- I ain't got a gun 'cause I ain't got a job -- I ain't got a job 'cause I can't go to school."

-Alice Cooper, 1994

"What a lucky man to see the earth before it touched his hand -- what an angry fool to condemn."

-Neil Young, 1990

"Bill Maher thinking he's ever going to be able to follow someone like myself is an impossibility. He's a regular comic. It's like Johnny Mathis trying to follow Elvis Presley."

-Andrew Dice Clay, 2011

"I've been beaten by the wind, robbed by the sleet, had my head stoved in, and I'm still on my feet, and I'm willin'."

"When I ride the hounds of hell - twist my foot, I nearly fell - I was lucky I was alive - one look back, I could have died."

-Downes/Wetton, 1982

"And from the wreckage I will arise -- cast the ashes back in their eyes -- see the fire I will defend -- just keep on burning right to the end."

-Downes/Wetton, 1982

"No one dies healthy."

-David Brenner, 19 May 1981

"Hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head up, hold your head high."

-R. Argent, C. White, 1971

"Well, it's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56, '57, '58' 59' automobile -- it's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67
'68, '69, '70 automobile."

-W. Kemp, 1976

"See the rich man lost and lonely -- watch him as he dines, sitting there just testing all the wines, 'til it shines.."

-B. Seger, 1978 

"If you ask that's what I'll say -- it's not your business anyway."

-Suzanne Vega, 1987 

"Can't seem to see where it doesn't get worse -- It's like one good thought getting lost in an angry verse."

-Crosby/Raymond, 2013 

"I've been lost now, days uncounted, and it's months since I've seen home - Can you hear me, can you hear me? Or am I all alone?"

-M. Farner, 1970 

"I can feel the hand of a stranger, and it's tightening around my throat - Heaven help me, Heaven help me. Take this stranger from my boat."

-M. Farner, 1970 

"I'm a troubled soul searching for peace in the night."

-Crosby/Raymond, 2013 

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice."

-Bill Cosby 

"We've got to look beyond saying that every solution has to have a winner and a loser."

-Bob Woodson, 18 April 2023

"If you think there's a solution, then you're part of the problem."

-George Carlin, 20 March 1996

"In the bull$#!+ department, a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman."

-George Carlin, 1999

"Set that baggage down, brother."

-Crosby/Fontayne, 2013

"Hear the skies singing songs I could have played, too busy talking to prove that I was not afraid."

-McGuinn/Levy, 1970

"That which is not real does not exist."

-McGuinn/Hillman, 1967

"Now some small parts seem right scattered here and there -- one smiling face in a crowd that's angry and scared -- can't seem to see where it doesn't get worse -- it's like one good thought getting lost in an angry verse."

-Crosby/Raymond, 2013

"Make it breathe, make it sweat, go as deep as you can get."

-Crosby/Eaton/Raymond, 2013

"Spend Christmas Eve in a library? Why don't you just kick me in the 'nads?"

-Michael Kelso, 17 December 2003

"The easiest way to fall is leaning on someone you love."

-Dunbar/Wayne/Lavette, 1970

"Who wants to buy what's broken?"

-James Raymond, 2014

"Done throw'd a stick in my spokes."

-Sterling Marlin

"To live is to suffer -- to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."

-Gordon Allport

"You're the only one you can blame, 'cause the world don't owe you a thing."

-Holland/Dozier, 1970

"With foxes we must play the fox."

-Thomas Fuller

"If you don't know where you're going, every road will get you nowhere."

-Henry Kissinger

"DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum."

-(Unconfirmed), 2007

"Have you ever felt a Southern night, free as a breeze, not to mention the trees whistlin' tunes that you know and love so?"

-Allan Toussaint, 1975

"That was a s***show last night."

-Tony Stewart, on Phoenix Truck Series race, 04 November 2023

"I sassed back at my mom, I sassed back at my teacher, I got thrown out of bible school for giving the finger to the preacher."

-Neil Young, 1989

"One person's misinformation is another person's information."

-Elon Musk, 2023

"I started out younger at most everything ...  all the riches and pleasures --what else could life bring?"

-Gram Parsons, 1968

"It's a hard way to find out that trouble is real, in a far away city, with a far away feel."

-Gram Parsons, 1968

"There was an old man, kind and wise with age, and he read me just like a book, and he never missed a page, and I loved him like my father, and I loved him like my friend, and I knew his time would shortly come, but I did not know just when."

-Gram Parsons, 1973

"Singing is like going to an analyst and spilling your guts."

-Greg Allman, 2011

"Well, the queen of spades is a friend of mine, the queen of hearts is a bitch; Someday when I clean up my mind I'll find out which is which."

-Gram Parsons, 1973

"Power and money didn't solve problems, it just changed the face of them."

-J. D. Souther, 1994

"[AI] has nothing to do with music -- It can't destroy a hotel room, it can't throw a TV off the fifth floor into the pool and get it right in the middle."

-Joe Walsh, 2023

"You better watch what you say -- you better watch what you do to me -- don't get carried away."

-Tom Petty, 1982

"Unifying the standards followed in any set of systems and technologies is rational and practical. From another viewpoint, however, imposing uniformity is a symbolic gesture linked to power, conquest and domination."

-Rev. Paul Gabor, 2023

"There were times apart, there were times together; I was pledged to her for worse or better."

-T. Petty, 1987

"Though they did hurt me so bad, in the fear and alarm, you did not desert me, my brothers in arms."

-M. Knopfler, 1985

"What a frickin' high-maintenance a$$hole!"

-Dale Earnhardt Jr., on steak-ordering colleague, 2 August 2023

"I have lived behind walls that have made me alone, striven for peace which I never have known."

-M. Knopfler, 1985

"Whatever life may hold in store, things will happen that you won't be ready for."

-J. Browne, 1982

"There's no use running -- it's not against the law."

-Blackmore/Gillan/Glover, 1984

"I know good loving and I'm a friend of pain -- but when I read between the lines, it's all the same."

-Coverdale/Galley, 1983

"I watched it all come down, to reflector shades and telegrams at dawn, changing highways, on and on, I'm gone -- been there too long."

-Graham Nash, 2023

"Rise up your soul will thank you, rise up you've got to survive, rise up into your future, rise up and you’ll feel alive."

-Graham Nash, 2023

"Golden idols shine in the sun, blinding everyone."

-Graham Nash, 2023

"They listened to their elders having their say, but when they started bickering they turned away."

-Graham Nash, 2023

"Right now, here I am, still living my life."

-Graham Nash, 2023

"I'm still standing better than I ever did, looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid."

-John/Taupin, 1983

"I'm gonna destroy you, and your reputation don't count for nothing with me 'cause I'm an old bitch, you see ... and my heart's in the right place, don't you agree?"

-John/Osborne, 1981

"You gotta go where the feeling flows and take it while it's hot -- you gotta give if you wanna get, and I want all you've got."

-John/Osborne, 1981

"Don't do me like that."

-Tom Petty, 1979

"Hard times are over."

-Yoko Ono, 1980

"You say there's a limit there, she can't go past that -- she don't believe you, she don't think that's where it's at."

-McGuinn/Crosby, 1966

"Keep sayin' no to her, since she was a baby -- keep sayin' no to her, not even maybe -- Why?"

-McGuinn/Crosby, 1966

"While victimization is inevitable, victimhood is optional."

-Pastor James Ward Jr., 28 March 2023

"Can someone please tell Ms. Pilgrim her constant cackle is very annoying? Now we have two stereophonic hens cackling in sync. Janai not only cackles, but is way too loud."

-Review of Good Morning America Weekend Edition, 28 August 2021

"Admit that the waters around you have grown, and accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone, ... and you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone."

-Bob Dylan, 1963

"The present now will later be past, for the times -- they are a-changin'."

-Bob Dylan, 1963

"The first one now, will later be last."

-Bob Dylan, 1963

"You gave away the things you love, and one of them was me."

-Carly Simon, 1972

"I won't be coming home tonight -- my generation will put it right -- we're not just making promises that we know we'll never keep."

-Rutherford/Banks/Collins, 1986

"Work your hands, not your mouth."

-Junior Johnson

"There's too many men -- too many people -- making too many problems."

-Rutherford/Banks/Collins, 1986

"I've been waiting for two thousand years -- that's a lot of blood, and a lot of tears."

-James Raymond, 2001

"I came back to Jerusalem just to see if the light had changed, but it all seems about the same."

-James Raymond, 2001

"Did you make amends, with all of the ones, under your guns? -- how have you treated your friends?"

-David Crosby, 1998

"When you own a big chunk of the bloody Third World, the babies just come with the scenery."

-Chrissie Hynde, 1983

"The planet will be here -- we'll be long gone, just another failed mutation, just another closed-end biological mistake, an evolutionary cul de sac -- the planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas -- a surface nuisance."

-George Carlin

- Rick Roberts, 1973

"Take the chip off of my shoulder, smooth out all the lines, take me out among the rustling pines, 'til it shines."

-Bob Seger, 1978

"Who wants to play those eights and aces? Who wants a raise? Who needs a stake? Who wants to take that long shot gamble and head out to Fire Lake?"

-Bob Seger, 1980

"I hate to say I told you so, but baby, you got to reap what you sow."

-Jackson/Tubbs, 1966

"Must I live my whole life through, not knowing what to do?"

-Gosdin/Gosdin/Gosdin, 1969

"There must be someone I can turn to -- someone like me, lonely too; all my life I've been alone -- got no friends, got no home."

-Gosdin/Gosdin/Gosdin, 1969

"I bet he comes to pit road ... if he was smart, he -- well, he ain't too smart."

-Dale Earnhardt, on Jeff Gordon qualifying in the rain at Michigan, 1995

"What the f#$% has Kyle Petty got to do with this?"

-Dale Earnhardt Jr., 29 July 2022

"Today no one cares -- tomorrow no one shares, because they all will be gone."

-Neil Young, 2022

"When Neil is involved in anything, you need a seat belt."

-Stephen Stills, 2011

"I never lost a job while leading a race."

-Buddy Baker

"People don’t understand that when I’m on the show I’m totally relaxed, hanging out, having a fun time, watching videos, and being goofy. Sometimes I say stupid comments, just being funny, and people think I’m a dumb person."

-Chanel West Coast

"She knows the difference between an M16 and a chicken-fried steak."

-Jim Rockford, 1977

"Do you really think I care, what you eat or what you wear? I want you to join together in the band."

-Pete Townshend, 1972

"It's the singer, not the song, that makes the music move along."

-Pete Townshend, 1972

"The first loss is the best loss."

-Jim Rogers, 1999

"Why don't you go sit on a tac?!?"

-Ed Higgins

"Funny how the night moves, when you just don't seem to have as much to lose."

-Bob Seger, 1976

"My church is the forest, the ocean, and the wild places. This is where I go to communicate with the Creator Spirit."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1990

"When you're taking and you could be giving, when you're dying and you could be living, don't forget love."

-Neil Young, 2022

"There's a warning sign on the road ahead -- there's a lot of people saying 'we'd be better off dead'."

-Neil Young, 1989

"It's not worth anything more than this at all -- I live as I choose or I will not live at all."

-Delores O'Riordan, 1996

"I never learned anything while I was talking."

-Mark Twain

"Life is too short to be mean to strangers online. Go outside and look at some trees."

-Lynda Carter, 17 July 2022

"All the things that you've heard are true -- I don't remember a lot about it but the depositions in court and police reports ..."

-Joe Walsh, 2017

"Music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason."

-Joe Walsh

"I know they're cheating because we're cheating and we're not winning."

-Dale Earnhardt

"He's alright for a session guy -- Campbell thinks he's gonna make it as a solo act someday."

-Characterization of Mike Love, TV Movie, 1990

"Why should it matter to us if they don't approve? We should just take our chances while we've got nothin' to lose."

-Kirsty MacColl, 1979

"World spinning out of control -- the odds diminish every die we throw."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1984

"Each year we find newer ways to turn this planet into empty space."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1984

"There'll be a load of compromisin on the road to my horizon -- but I'm gonna be where the light is shining on me."

-Larry Weiss, 1974

"Some have a style that they work hard to refine -- so they walk a crooked line."

-Jules Shear, 1985

"A smile relieves a heart that grieves."

-Jagger/Richards, 1981

"We won't solve the climate crisis until we solve the misinformation crisis."

-Rep. Ro Khanna, 2021

"The stingy man always pays the most."

-Click & Clack, 1992

"Never judge someone's story by the chapter you walk in on."

-Chynna Phillips, 2022

"F#$% hope!"

-George Carlin, 1994

"She could have turned out to be almost anyone -- almost anyone -- with the possible exception of who I wanted her to be."

-Jackson Browne, 1979

"Even the steps backwards are part of the dance."

-Chynna Phillips, 2022

"These people I'm talking to don't understand -- don't seem to realize -- they're listening but they're not hearing me -- they're being too cruel to be kind."

-Phil Collins, 1982

"All day long he was fighting for you, and he didn't even know your name; young men come and young men go, but life goes on just the same."

-Phil Collins, 1989

"The Eastern World is exploding -- violence flaring -- bullets loading."

-P. F. Sloan, 1964

"Well it feels like something you want so bad, and then you think you've got it, but it's something you already had."

-Phil Collins, 1981

"Our dreams of Endless Summer were just too grandiose -- adios, adios."

-Jimmy Webb, 1989

"We never really made it, but we came pretty close -- adios, adios."

-Jimmy Webb, 1989

"Well the older generation -- they got something to say -- but they better say it fast, or get outta the way."

-Neil Young, 2002

"That music is terrible! Is that Meatloaf?"

-Co-worker, 1996

"I'd like to shake your hand, disappointment -- looks like you win again -- but this time might be the last."

-Neil Young, 2002

"Don't you give up now -- so easy to find -- just look to your soul and open your mind."

-Gray, James, Vale, 1968

"Shadows of a golden age -- a generation waits for dawn; brave carry on, bold and the strong."

-Cain, Perry, Schon, 1983

"Do you know what I love most about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt. And that’s just in the hot dogs."

-David Letterman

"The U.S. is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked."

-David Letterman

"Try to make sense, and then give up -- it'll come to you right when you stop."

-David Crosby & Dean Parks, 2021

"You got to find your lifeline and pick up your thread and tell your story before you're dead."

-David Crosby & Dean Parks, 2021

"I'm facing a squall like that of a thousand-year storm -- I don't know if I'm dying or about to be born."

-David Crosby & James Raymond, 2021

"I'm standing on the porch like it's the edge of a cliff -- beyond the grass and gravel lies a certain abyss -- and I don't think I will try it today."

-David Crosby & James Raymond, 2021

"Only the young can say, they're free to fly away, sharing the same desire, burnin' like wildfire."

-Cain, Perry, Schon, 1983

"Monogamy isn't a hardwood from Brazil."

-Walter "Herbie" Herbert, 2001

"You can't fight what you can't see -- I'm a P.I., not an artillery spotter."

-James Rockford, 9 January 1976

"High noon works only if you know who's getting off the train."

-James Rockford, 20 February 1976

"I'm asking perfect strangers if I look to be alright."

-David Crosby & James Raymond, 2021

"You can't overdose on music."

-David Crosby, 5 October 2021

"Cocaine is God's way of saying, 'You have too much money!'."

-Robin Williams, 14 October 1981

"This machine kills fascists."

-Woodie Guthrie guitar sticker

"She believes that sacred things don't need explaining."

-A. Moore & P. Riley, 2014

"Hide your fire, but keep it lit; burn the stuff that you can't use; make a map that you can't lose."

-David Crosby & Dean Parks, 2021

"You got to walk on water and float on air, and go to sleep where you make your bed, and make your bed where you won't get hit."

-David Crosby & Dean Parks, 2021

"Nobody shot at me today."

-David Crosby & Dean Parks, 2021

"I was so poor that I couldn't pay attention."

-Dr. Phil, 2021

"Hey, it's the Daytona 500."

-Drunk bar patron, upon seeing TV broadcast of ARCA race at Kansas in May

"No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning."

-Richard Petty

"Silence means compliance."

-Workplace nudnik, 2021

"That's three points for me -- take your best shot, Harvey."

-Unidentified, from the movie How Sweet It Is!, 1968

"I've got a place of my own -- a little slice -- there's a sliver of air between the water and the ice -- it's where I live, where I breathe."

-David Crosby & James Raymond, 2021

"I won't stay for long."

-David Crosby & James Raymond, 2021

"The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things that losers don't want to do."

-Dr. Phil

"People, stop hurting people."

-P. Townshend, 1982

"Without your match, there is no flame."

-P. Townshend, 1982

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

-Albert Einstein

"50 percent of the solution to any problem lies in defining it."

-Dr. Phil, 2015

"Caught in the haze of misunderstood ways and in trying to make myself heard -- spent too much time tryin' to get to my mind, when all that I need is sweet music to wade through the years."

-Dave Mason, 1975

"Let the river rise, open up the skies, time won't slip away -- let the clock run out, don't care about it, not today."

-David Crosby, James Raymond, Michael McDonald, 2021

"The wind has its own language spoken by the trees."

-David Crosby, James Raymond, Michael McDonald, 2021

"I don't think that people should be looking for causes just to say they have a cause -- I don't think that has anything to do with making music."

-David Crosby, 1977

"Boy, we'll win every damn race 'til they catch us."

-Junior Johnson, 1994

"The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one."

-Junior Johnson

"Put it out!"

-Clint Bowyer, 2021

"Just one more fix lord, might do the trick -- one hell of a price for you to get your kicks."

-Collins & Van Zant, 1977

"You say you'll be all right come tomorrow, but tomorrow might not be here for you."

-Collins & Van Zant, 1977

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained, there's nothing left to lose, except to find out for yourself the things you always knew."

-D. Mason, 1978

"Turn off the lights, the party just got wilder."

-Dan Rather, 7 November 2000

"If you stick your finger in a rattlesnake's mouth and get bit, don't complain."

-Larry McReynolds, 14 March 2021

"If you want to play follow the leader, you end up following the leader."

-Larry McReynolds, 14 March 2021

"Some say life will beat you down, break your heart, steal your crown."

-Tom Petty, 1991

"The good ol' days may not return, and the rocks might melt, and the sea may burn."

-Tom Petty, 1991

"There's nothing sadder than seeing old people trying to be happy."

-Gilbert Bates, 1962

"It takes a stiff upper lip to face it alone -- say goodbye to the grip."

-Dave Mason, 1980

"Sorry, I couldn't find a phone booth to change in."

-Sergeant TJ Hooker, 1982

"Stop going after headlines and go after facts!"

-Sergeant TJ Hooker, 1982

"There's no love insurance when you're out on your own."

-Dave Mason, 1980

"Communication is not subject to chain of command -- Somewhere, an O-4's head just exploded reading this …..  Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the chain of command .....  Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere."

-Elon Musk, 2021

"She looked at me and smiled and said, 'You must be insane -- you know I've got more money than the sky's got rain -- it don't look like you've got nothing but a hope and a wish -- you know what I am baby -- I'm a Hollywood b*itch!'"

-Dave Mason, 1978

"If by chance that we should meet you wouldn't recognize me on the street, 'cause you are you and I am me and never the twain shall meet."

-Dave Mason, 1978

"The returns are running like a squirrel in a cage."

-Dan Rather, 7 November 2000

"The polls have been veering and wobbling so much that neither NASA nor the Russian Cosmodrome can track 'em."

-Dan Rather, 7 November 2000

"Sorry, I did something last night and I already made plans for sometime."

-Melissa, from That 70s Show, 9 October 2001

"That will have the Bush people in Austin jumping out of their seats like they were stabbed with hat pins."

-Dan Rather, 7 November 2000

"To err is human; to really foul up requires a computer."

-Dan Rather, 7 November 2000

"It was as hot and squalid as a New York elevator in August."

-Dan Rather, 7 November 2000

"We have two ears, and one mouth, for a reason."

-Dr. Phil, November 2020

"We can't permit inflammation without information."

-Governor Chris Christie, 5 November 2020

"Mathematics doesn't care about your feelings."

-Chuck Todd, 6 November 2020

"Tony Glover was doing an interview one time outside of the hauler, and he's terrified of snakes so I found a fan belt and just cut it in half. He didn't see me coming because he had his back to me, and the guys with cameras filming, I'm going 'shhh.' I threw it around his neck and I mean -- if they had fined you back then for cussing on TV he would've been broke. He run off and never finished the interview."

-Sterling Marlin, 2002

"NEXT CAR PLEASE!"

-Rude, physically aggressive bellhop, Honolulu Airport, 23 November 1979

"Authorities who don't have ears to hear, don't have brains to govern."

-Proverb

"I come to you tonight in the midst of a very important election between two very qualified candidates: the hot lady and the Tiger Woods guy."

-Will Ferrell as George W. Bush, 23 October 2008

"Will you shut up, man!"

-Former Vice President Joe Biden, 29 September 2020

"All you singers and your lovely songs -- try so very hard to make them all belong -- some get taken; others forsaken -- we keep a movin' a right along."

-Paul Cotton, 1973

"Politicians, and your writers, trading people's dreams -- you've got moon blindness -- while you're reaching up for the winner's cup, keep your feet on the ground and your ears on what is coming down."

-Paul Cotton, 1973

"You don't need no love in, you don't need no bed pan, you don't need a horoscope or a microscope to see the mess that you're in."

-George Harrison, 1971

"Isn't it a pity, isn't is a shame -- how we break each other's hearts and cause each other pain."

-George Harrison, 1971

"I'm just here so I don't get fined."

-Marshawn Lynch, 2015

"Watch out now -- take care, beware of greedy leaders."

-G. Harrison, 1970

"You don't need no church house, and you don't need no temple; you don't need no rosary beads or them books to read to see that you have fallen."

-G. Harrison, 1970

"I only know that when I'm in it, it isn't silly, no, it isn't silly -- love isn't silly at all."

-P. McCartney, 1976

"We've taken sides in anger and we can't back down -- now we're fighting just to bring the other down -- and if you think to stop it now, then the next time we'll know how."

-Sebastian/Yanovsky, 1966

"When the dawn comes to leave, why does light have to be like the mirror that's showin' I'm older? And the sun don't feel good and I ask how I could, when it feels like a crow on my shoulder."

-Sebastian/Butler, 1966

"I don't listen to their wasted lines -- got my eyes wide open and I see the signs."

-Kirsty MacColl, 1979

"The days go by and you wish you were a different guy -- different friends and a new set of clothes. You make alterations and effect a new pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose. But it's superficial and it's only skin deep, because the voices in your head keep shouting in your sleep, 'Get back!'"

-Ray Davies, 1984

"None of us are really strangers -- we're just friends that haven't met."

-Bobby Allison, 2013

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."

-Gary Nelson, 1997

"Who took everything from where it once was, and put it where it last was seen?"

-Neil Young, 1976

"Fez, I know it's hard for a foreigner to understand our complicated capitalist system. But we're dealing with quarters here, not frogs or chickens."

-Michael Kelso, 2001

"No light fantastic ever crosses my mind -- that meditation stuff can make you go blind."

-Spinal Tap, 1976

"Just crank that music to the point of pain -- why waste good music on a brain?"

-Spinal Tap, 1976

"We're in this together and ever."

-Spinal Tap, 1992

"May I start by saying how thrilled we are to have you here, we are such fans of your music and all of your records -- I'm not speaking of yours personally but the whole genre of the rock and roll and some of the exciting things happening in music today."

-Lt. Bob Hookstratten, 1982

"Crosby should write an introspective book: Why People Won’t Talk to Me Anymore."

-Neil Young, 2019

"He didn't have to be Ernest Hemingway."

-Anonymous, 2020

"'I bet you've seen the cloud we make that covers up our rain -- I wonder if you'll hide behind a shroud like that, some day?"

-Al "The Blind Owl" Wilson, 1969

"'Grown up'?  Well, you sure say that a lot, so it must be true. Let me try it: Hey, everybody, I'm Mr. Rogers ..... But wait, I'm not wearing a sweater ..... and I'm about to kick your ass."

-Red Foreman, 1978

"You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs."

-Tommy Chong, 2017

"The last I knew of Bill France, Jr., he woulda had to went to 4th grade 3 more years to get a idiot's license."

-Smokey Yunick, 1995

"Who just dialed in? ..... Who just dialed in? ..... Who just dialed in? ..... Who just dialed in? ..... Who just dialed in? ..... Who just dialed in? ..... Who just dialed in? ..... Who just dialed in? ..... Who just dialed in? ..... Who just dialed in? ..... Who just dialed in? ..... Who just dialed in?"

-Teleconference moderator, 26 March 2020

"You just weren't good enough, punk."

-Sergeant TJ Hooker, 1982

"You need to learn how to read the stitches on the fastball."

-Rush Limbaugh, 17 February 2020

"Take the time to close your eyes and look around, because everyone who helps you out can let you down."

-Neil Young, 1967

"I could've drove the sonofabitch to Jacksonville with what I had in it."

-Smokey Yunick, 1992

"See, it's not fake news, it's really me. Now, what's a hashtag?"

-Sterling Marlin's first Tweet, 6 August 2018

"You never stood in that man's shoes, or saw things through his eyes, or stood and watched with helpless hands while the heart inside you dies..... So help your brother along the road, no matter where he starts, for the same God that made you made him too -- these men with broken hearts."

-Hank Williams, 1951

"The image is one thing and the human being is another...it’s very hard to live up to an image."

-Elvis, 1972

"Whether you're gay, straight, you can't tell anybody who to love and who to marry. It's unconstitutional and it's morally wrong."

-Andrew Dice Clay

"It doesn't matter if you get it -- it's funny!"

-Andrew Dice Clay, 1989

"Tell Bill I said, 'Have a Coke and a smile and shut the f#$% up!'"

-Richard Pryor, 1983

"What the f#$% was that?!?"

-Kyle Petty, 24 June 2007

"Herb, tell Junior to kiss my ass!"

-Bobby Allison, 1972

"He's gonna spend public money, our tax dollars, to notify the guy that fired me that I'm out of work!"

-Archie Bunker, 1976

"You're gonna get Reagan in 1980, wise guy!"

-Archie Bunker, 1976

"You can't squeeze blood out of a tulip."

-Archie Bunker, 1977

"Don't you know that the whole world puts on a sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe?"

-Archie Bunker, 1973

"What about this overcrowded land -- How much more abuse from man can she stand?"

-Marvin Gaye, 1971

"My old man during the depression was broke -- didn't have the money to buy food, pay the rent -- he had to run around and put the arm on all the relations for a $5 here and a $10 there -- it broke his heart, and they all called him a 'moocher' - a 'moocher'!  The last thing he said to me before he died was, 'don't ever borrow from relations or they'll call you a moocher', and when he died I had to borrow the money to plant him, and what do you think the relations called me?  'Son-of-a-moocher'!"

-Archie Bunker, 1976

"Time was when we could agree -- that time's gone -- now you find fault with me."

-Canned Heat, 1969

"You know, there’s a philosopher who says, 'As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.'"

-Joe Walsh, 2013

"Leave me alone, won't you leave me alone, please leave me alone now, yeah leave me alone, oh leave me alone, please leave me alone, yes leave me, leave me, leave me alone won't you leave me alone, please leave me alone, no leave me alone, yeah leave me along, just leave me alone, oh leave me, leave me."

-Helen Reddy, 1973

"It's kind of a special feeling when you're out on the sea alone -- staring at the full moon like a lover."

-Glenn Shorrock, 1979

"If there's one thing in my life that's missing -- it's the time that I spend alone, sailing on the cool and bright clear water."

-Glenn Shorrock, 1979

"I'm a kiss-stealin', wheelin' dealin', truck drivin' son of a gun."

-Dave Dudley, 1965

"Leaders fall, leaders rise, terror wears a thin disguise -- not much room for compromise."

-Neil Young, 1987

"Rommel wore a ring on his finger -- he only took it off when he flew his plane -- once he told me why -- he said 'we all have to fly, someday' -- we all have to fly, someday."

-Neil Young, 1989

"If you don't really know where you want to go, it makes no difference which road you take."

-Neil Young, 1987

"If you take a carburetor apart and put it together enough times, you will eventually have two of them."

-David Taylor, 2019

"I was a Catholic until I reached the age of reason."

-George Carlin, 2005

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

-Rosa Parks, 1992

"If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"

-George Carlin

"It's called 'The American Dream', because you have to be asleep to believe it."

-George Carlin, 2005

"If you send a letter to the Post Office, who delivers it?"

-George Carlin, 1989

"Did you ever wake up in the morning and realize that so far everything has happened prior to now?"

-George Carlin, 1985

'Undisputed Heavyweight Champion'? Well if it's undisputed, what's all the fighting about?"

-George Carlin, 1994