I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
From Tom Waits
I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.
If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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.
I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.
As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
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