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You’re innocent when you dream.

Tom Waits

If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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Market Myself Nervous Open People See Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
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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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
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 like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
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
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime

You’re innocent when you dream.

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