I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
TOM WAITSThere’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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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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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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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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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 think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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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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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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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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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Living 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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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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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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