We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITSI dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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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 like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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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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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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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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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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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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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