There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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 my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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 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 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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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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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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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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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Their 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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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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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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