I would have thought that’s better known as Joni Mitchell quote, from “Big Yellow Taxi”.
Here’s my submission:
“Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin’ left to do but smile, smile, smile.”
It’s pratically a haiku - so few words, yet I can see those dogs panting in the heat, and I can see that cat, and how that describes the human condition for most of us most of the time - no option but grin and bear it…
Go wherever you can be and live for the day
it’s only wear and tear - “Further Away” by IQ
“She said that I’d grow old believing that I was what mattered most,
That I’d uncover real feelingswhen I got close”…
Don’t know about yourself, what you plan to be
We’re gambling with the time but choose our destiny
Flirtin’ With Disaster - Molly Hatchet
But the game never ends when your whole world depends
on the turn of a friendly card
You’re only human,
you’re supposed to make mistakes
-Billy Joel
How can you help it when the music starts to play
and your ability to reason gets swept away
-The Main Ingredient
Well I know what’s right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin’ me around
But I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down
– Tom Petty
If you want a do-right-all-day woman
You’ve got to be a do-right-all-night man
–Aretha Franklin
Look at someone who really loves you,
yeah, really loves you. Turn around, look at me.
–The Vogues
It wasn’t a rock.
It was a rock lobster!
– The B52s
And there are no exceptions to the rule.
Yes, everybody’s somebody’s fool.
–Connie Francis
And there’s so much time to make up everywhere you turn
Time we have wasted on the way
So much water moving underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away
–Crosby, Stills & Nash
I could quote Bjork all day, and those lines you quoted right there come from one of my favorite songs by her.
I also will offer up two lines from her I See Who You Are from Volta:
Let’s celebrate now
All this flesh on our bones
**Can’t help about the shape I’m in, I can’t sing, I aint pretty and my legs are thin
**
But don’t ask me what I think of you, I may not give the answer that you want me to…
-Peter Green
Don’t ya know there ain’t no devil
That’s just God when he’s drunk
Tom Waits
“Take a minute just to breathe and think of everything you wanted and what you got instead.”
David Cook (no one laugh at me either)
We all know success when we all find our own dreams,
And our love is enough to knock down any walls.
–“Pure and Easy”, Pete Townshend
*But it’s too late to say you’re sorry
How would I know why should I care
*
“She’s Not There”–The Zombies
*I know a lot of things
But I don’t know a lot of other things
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John Mellencamp, “You’ve Got To Stand For Something”
Now there’s only two things in life
But I forget what they are
John Hiatt - “Buffalo River Home”
Sooner or later, it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one…
Billy Joel
Wise men don’t know how it feels
To be thick as a brick
–Jethro Tull
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest
So I can be you for you what you want to see
“Best Imitation Of Myself”, Ben Folds Five
That song’s full of great ones.
“I can’t complain…
But sometimes I still do”
You ain’t a beauty, but hey, you’re all right
Oh, and that’s all right with me
– Bruce Springsteen, Thunder Road
Christ I’m so mixed up and lonely
I can’t even make friends with my brain
I’m too young to be where I’m going
But I’m too old to go back again
–John Prine, Rocky Mountain Time
Actually, just about any Prine song would qualify…he is the master of quirky lyrics 