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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Tom Waits

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
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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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Admire Death Feeling People
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
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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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
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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Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
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
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
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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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing

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