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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.

Tom Waits

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 learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
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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Commercial Oneself Song
Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
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 way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
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’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
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
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
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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Down Dreams Luck Yourself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
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
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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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
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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Career Family Night Trick Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman

I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.

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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.

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