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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.

Tom Waits

We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Admire Death Feeling People
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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Career Family Night Trick Yourself
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small

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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