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.
TOM WAITSTheir memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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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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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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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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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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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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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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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’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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