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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

Tom Waits

There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
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
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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Career Family Night Trick Yourself
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Admire Death Feeling People
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime

I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

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