Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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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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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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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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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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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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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