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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

Tom Waits

Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
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
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
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
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
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
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
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
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 have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Myself Prayer Religious
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

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