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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

Tom Waits

I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
TOM WAITS

Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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Inspirational Money Musician Need Play Stage Wallet Yourself
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust Yourself

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

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