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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.

Tom Waits

They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Bowl Moon Myself Stars
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
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
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning 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
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
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 did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
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
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality

If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.

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