From “Rock Star” in Every Lyric Tells A Story.
What happens to a rock star
When he gets too old to perform
When his public has faded
Like the strength his voice once had?
What happens to a rock star
When he’s treated like yesterday’s news
And the only reviews that he gets are ones that are bad?


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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
MARK TWAIN
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
MARK TWAIN
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
MARK TWAIN
When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony...
MARK ZUCKERBERG
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAIN
Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos...
MARK WARNER
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
MARK TWAIN
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN
All generalizations are false, including this one.
MARK TWAIN
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN
I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
MARK ZUCKERBERG
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN
There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci...
MARK VONNEGUT
There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan...
MARK ZANDI
Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp...
MARK PAGEL
I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t...
MARK RONSON
Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit...
MARK FRAUENFELDER
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN
I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
MARK GATISS
Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ...
MARK MCKINNON
If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN
I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
MARK ZUCKERBERG
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
MARK HOPKINS
Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it...
MARK HAMILL
What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!
MARK MCKINNEY
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
MARK EDWARDS
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN
When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN
The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
MARK TWAIN
By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN
So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
MARK TWAIN
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
MARK TWAIN
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
MARK TWAIN
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
MARK TWAIN
Say the report is exaggerated.
MARK TWAIN
A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
MARK TWAIN
To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
MARK TWAIN
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ...
MARK TWAIN
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
MARK TWAIN
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
MARK TWAIN
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
MARK TWAIN
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
MARK TWAIN
We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN
All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
MARK TWAIN