There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITSI like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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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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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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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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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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My 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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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