I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
TOM WAITSAll the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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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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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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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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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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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