I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITSChildren make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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 always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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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 have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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