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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”

Tom Waits

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
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.
TOM WAITS

Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITS

Absorb Willing Yourself
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
TOM WAITS

Fight Justice Myself World

On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”

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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”

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