"No Matter How I Try" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "No Matter How I Try" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gM6bo-QhS0 (song on YouTube)
(+ Live performance on Top of the Pops. On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBqEgnBNKDI
(+ Live performance in Japan, 1993. On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsQu04bOm9I
Song lyrics
“We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.”
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
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Norton Juster 40
American children's writer, academic, and architect 1929Related quotes
“You don't even know where I'm going."
"I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.”
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Remark to Judson Welliver, as quoted in Francis Russell (1968) The Shadow of Blooming Grove.
1920s
“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going.”
“But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Don't Push Me
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)