Edie Brickell

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"Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave."

- Edie Brickell

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"I really thought I could give it up... But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself."

- Edie Brickell

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"He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.""

- Edie Brickell

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"In a world religion class, everyone was complicating life and existence by over-thinking. I had this sense it's right here, right now. It's who we are and what we feel. It's not this tangled web of psychology and philosophy. I was driving to band practice and started singing that song. I wanted to be real, not adopt some philosophy or role. Instinct is our driving force."

- Edie Brickell

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"I'm not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean."

- Edie Brickell

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"Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog."

- Edie Brickell

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"Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep."

- Edie Brickell

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"What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?"

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"The village idiots in her bed Never cared that her eyes were red Never cared that her brain was dead. In the hours that her face was alive It was a thing just to be by her side."

- Edie Brickell

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"Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around."

- Edie Brickell

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"All your thoughts are in another head. Your dreams are sleepin' in a different bed. The force that moves you is a circular breath of life and death going round and round and round."

- Edie Brickell

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"Maybe you ride a different wave. Maybe you catch another ray of the sun That I've just begun to feel."

- Edie Brickell

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"I don't believe in hatred anymore. I hate to think of how it felt before When anger overwhelms your very soul It's hard to realize you'll ever knowLove like we do."

- Edie Brickell

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"When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye.Everything is temporary anyway. When the streets are wet — the colors slip into the sky. But I don't know why that means you and I are — that means you and... I quit, I give up. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems."

- Edie Brickell

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"I notice me. I notice you too. And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this. Beat the time. And every time I turn around we got some clever way to put each other down."