Dan Hicks Short Quotes

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How coincidental you should call. I was just throwing pins at a little doll I'd made of you.

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I didn't say I wanted to end the group, what I said was, 'I don't care if this group ever works again.'.

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The kitchen sink is dirty,
The baby has to burp,
Your hair is in an awful maze,
It's been that way for days.

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Your constant gift of gab,
This life that you condone,
Have set my mind to wondering,
Is this my happy home?

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The little things you don't pick up,
Like a ringin' telephone,
Have set my mind to wondering,
Is this my happy home?

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I am lousy at sports, car mechanics, cooking gourmet meals, remembering new lyrics, never getting angry, and other stuff.

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Everything you brought into the Charlatans ended up just as a loud rock tune. It lost my kind of floating... of a floating, linear feeling.

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I will always be humble to my dying day. On my dying day I will explain to the world how lucky they have been to be alive the same time as me.

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I don't think I have the confidence to even get back up on the stage. Can you comprehend a human mind, a state of mind, where everything bothers you?

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God allowed the Pearl Harbor attack to happen on December 7, 1941. Two days later He made up for it by having me born! This is my story and I'm stickin' to it!

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How can I miss you when you won't go away?
Keep telling you day after day
But you won't listen, you always stay and stay
How can I miss you when you won't go away?

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Well, listen close if you really wanna hear what she does
Does to me each time were near
Come this July gonna put it in a book
I'm going to get her by hook or by crook

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Clickity-clack, that ol' railroad tracks
Five'll getcha ten getcha twenty-five ol' greenbacks
Well, I never seen much coin in my bag
I soon got used to that same ol' jag.

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I just got off the stage in Columbus one day feeling really drug and I said, 'I don't want to do this anymore.' It'd become a big business trip; it wasn't a fun music trip anymore.

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I've talked to your mother and I've talked to your dad
They say they've tried but it's all in vain
I've begged and I've pleaded, I even got mad
Now we must face it, you give me a pain.

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You got to stand by this word if you wanna do right
If you got a good home, then stay there tonight
Unless you wanna eat the dirt and the mud
Stay 'way from ramblin' it gets in your blood.

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Canned music, canned music, playing on the radio
Canned music, canned music, with out a dime it doesn't go
Favorites on the jukebox are only half the show when it's
Canned music, canned music...

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I was born in 1947. I got my first guitar when I was ten. I toured with Chuck Berry for a year. I was with Herbie Hancock for a good count. I've paid my dues. They were, ah, $13 an hour, I believe.

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