Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
TOM WAITSLiving with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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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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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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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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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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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 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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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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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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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