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

Tom Waits

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITS

Kill Kiss Myself See
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
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
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.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
TOM WAITS

Music Myself Song Wind
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
TOM WAITS

Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
TOM WAITS

Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
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
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
TOM WAITS

Talk Truth Yourself
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITS

Away Big Small

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

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