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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.

Tom Waits

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’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
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
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself

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