Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITS
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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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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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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