If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITSit ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Their 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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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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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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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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I was always laughing in church.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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