I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITSYou 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?
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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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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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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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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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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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?
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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