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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?

Tom Waits

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
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
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
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 Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
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
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement

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