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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.

Tom Waits

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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Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
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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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Break Finding Stay Window
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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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
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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Commercial Oneself Song
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet

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