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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.

Tom Waits

Children 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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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
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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Commercial Oneself Song
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Myself Prayer Religious
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
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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Drowning Music Rescue Sound Time Yourself
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind

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