"There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music."

-- Tom Waits

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“All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.”
“I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.”
“Meet your fears with faith.”
“Where love fails we espy all faults.”

Source : John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.15
“I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.”
“No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.”
“If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.”
“I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.”

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