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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.

Tom Waits

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
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
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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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Down Dreams Luck Yourself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Guy Ring Sell Type
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano

I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.

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