I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
TOM WAITSNew York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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