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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.

Tom Waits

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
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.
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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
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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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
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.
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Fight Justice Myself World
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.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst 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
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Down Dreams Luck Yourself
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
TOM WAITS

Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing

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