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

Tom Waits

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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Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
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
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder

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

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