And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.

I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.

But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.