And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITSWell you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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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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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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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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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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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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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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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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