If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITSThe 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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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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.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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