Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITSYou learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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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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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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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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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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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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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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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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The 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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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’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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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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