- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
- Heavy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.
- Hood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. You find that out really fast.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
- Drinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The piano has been drinking, not me.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dawn
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to win when you always lose.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Island
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- Nov 07, 2020