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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.

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
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
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
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
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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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
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
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
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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Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket Yourself
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom

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