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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

Tom Waits

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
TOM WAITS

Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
TOM WAITS

Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
TOM WAITS

End Force Surreal Yourself
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
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
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
TOM WAITS

Age Myself Old Quite Young
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
TOM WAITS

Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITS

Drive Nature Roar Yourself
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITS

Bowl Moon Myself Stars

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