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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

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
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
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
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
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’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself

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