I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
TOM WAITSMy wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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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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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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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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