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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.

Tom Waits

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
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Break Finding Stay Window
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
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
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
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
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
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
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play

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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