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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.

Tom Waits

You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
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
For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
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
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
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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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself

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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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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