The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITS
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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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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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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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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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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