I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITSWell, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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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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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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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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 just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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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 guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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I 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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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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