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

Tom Waits

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
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
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
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
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking 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
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Guy Ring Sell Type
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet

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

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