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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

Tom Waits

I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
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
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
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 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
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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Talk Truth 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
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play

I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

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