We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITSI dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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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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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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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 like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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There’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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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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